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title: "Setting up an approval chain"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/PAFC/2182578564/Setting%20up%20an%20approval%20chain"
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> Macro (aura-html)

### Approval summary

<span style="color: #000000">The chain approval request requires all the approvers that have been listed to approve the page, only then the page approval status will change to </span><span style="color: #000000">**Approved**</span><span style="color: #000000">. The approval goes through an ordered chain, the approvers will have to take turns to approve or reject the approval request.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">At any order, even if one approver rejects the request, the entire approval request will be </span><span style="color: #000000">**Rejected**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

### Approval type

Approval chain

### Scenario

You need to request approval for the financial auditing done for the quarter. Your team consists of a financier and a manager. You need the financier's approval first, followed by the approval of the manager to finalize the approval. 

Go to any page in your space.

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

- <span style="color: #172b4d">select </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Approval chain **</span><span style="color: #172b4d">in the window.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">add the approver in order into the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Approvers **</span><span style="color: #000000">field</span>

> 📝 In this example, the first approver added is the financier and the second approver added is the manager.

- <span style="color: #000000">choose </span><span style="color: #000000">**Next**</span>

![image](media://b636a441-5f72-4f8f-8b67-a3fc8688a89e)

In the consequent fields, add the following details

- **Acknowledgers **- choose a user to be an acknowledger or leave it empty, this field is optional
  - **Due Date **- set the deadline for the approval to be given
  - **Priority** - set the priority level for approval
- choose **Send Request**

<span style="color: #172b4d">The status will change from </span>**Page approval **<span style="color: #172b4d">to </span>**In review **after the request is sent.

- <span style="color: #172b4d">choose </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**In review**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> > </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**View Request Approval**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> to view the current state of the approval request</span>

### Approval outcome

| Approver 1 | Approver 2 | Outcome |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Request approved :check_mark: | Request approved :check_mark: | Approved |
| Request rejected :cross_mark: | Unable to make action | Rejected |
| Request approved :check_mark: | Request rejected :cross_mark: | Rejected |