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title: "Using approval templates"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/PAFC/2182480298/Using%20approval%20templates"
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> Macro (aura-html)

## Overview

Use a predefined approval template to populate the approver and acknowledger fields automatically. Approval templates enhance the efficiency of the approval request submission.

## Prerequisites

An administrator of the Confluence Cloud site has to have defined the approval templates within the **Page Approval** application specific to the space. 

> ℹ️ If there are no approval templates to choose from, request your admin to create a relevant template based on [Creating and deleting approval templates](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PAFC/pages/2182807553).

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## Steps

Go to any page in your space

- choose the **Page Approval **breadcrumb below the page title

The list of approval templates are displayed in a popup.

![image](media://7ba1d027-8fd3-4168-be48-2365d4dccb83)

You have two template options in this example

- select one of the approval templates to proceed with predefined approvers and acknowledgers

> 📝 Select **Skip** if you do not want to use the existing approval template and instead define your own acknowledgers and approvers. Refer to the [Setting up a request for approval](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PAFC/pages/2183037250) documentation.

<span style="color: #0e101a">The selected template will populate the fields in the </span><span style="color: #0e101a">**Select approvers**</span><span style="color: #0e101a"> and </span><span style="color: #0e101a">**Select acknowledgers **</span><span style="color: #0e101a">step.</span>

- <span style="color: #0e101a">choose </span><span style="color: #0e101a">**Next**</span><span style="color: #0e101a"> until you reach the </span><span style="color: #0e101a">**Set due date and priority**</span><span style="color: #0e101a"> step</span>

- set the **Due Date** and **Priority** for the approval
- then, choose **Send request **to submit the approval request

The status changes from **Request approval **to **In review**.

> ℹ️ A notification is sent to the approvers informing them that an approval request is pending their approval.

# Related

- [Resetting page approvals](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PAFC/pages/2182611180)
- [Understanding the approval process](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PAFC/pages/2182775178)
- [Setting up a request for approval](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PAFC/pages/2183037250)