# Approvals

> Ask teammates to sign a post off before it goes live, and decide whether that review can stop it publishing.

An approval request asks one or more reviewers to look at a post. You decide whether their answer is required before
it publishes, or just a heads-up.

> **Note:** Approval workflows are part of the Advanced plan.

## Request an approval

1. In the composer, open **Info** and choose **Add approval**.
2. Pick the reviewers, and add a message for them if you like.
3. Set how the review works:
   - **This is a blocking approval.** On: the post won't publish until it's approved. Off: the request is
     informational, and the post publishes on schedule whatever happens.
   - **All reviewers must approve the post.** On: every reviewer has to approve, and with a blocking approval a single
     rejection stops it. Off: one approval is enough.
   - **Publish as soon as it's approved.** On: the post goes out the moment it's approved, whatever time is on it. Off:
     it waits for its scheduled time.
4. Save. Reviewers are emailed, and notified in the app and in Slack if you've
   [connected it](https://orbitwrite.com/docs/guides/workspace/notifications).

## When members need approval

On the Advanced plan, members can't publish on their own. Their **Post now** and **Schedule** buttons become
**Request approval**, and every post they want out carries a blocking approval. A reviewer doesn't have to be named:
anyone who can approve can pick it up. Managers, admins and owners publish directly.

## Review a post

Reviewers see posts waiting for them in the **Needs approval** column of the [planner](https://orbitwrite.com/docs/guides/scheduling/schedule-and-planner)
and in their notifications. Open one to read it, comment on it or suggest edits, then:

- **Approve** it. If it's scheduled, it publishes at its time. If its author wanted it out now, it publishes as soon as
  you approve.
- **Request changes**, with an optional note on what needs changing. The post moves to **Needs revision**, and your note is added
  to its [comments](https://orbitwrite.com/docs/guides/collaboration/comments).

Reviewers can also approve or reject straight from a Slack message.

## Scheduling a post that's still under review

You can schedule a post before it's approved. The composer asks you to confirm first, because scheduling doesn't
approve it:

- With a **blocking** approval, the post publishes at its time only if it's approved by then. If the time passes with
  the review still open, it comes back as a draft for you to re-time.
- With a **non-blocking** approval, it publishes on time either way.

## Change or remove an approval

From **Info**, choose **Edit approval** to change the reviewers or the settings, resend the email, or **Reset
approval** to start the review over. Managers, admins and owners can **Mark approved** or **Mark rejected** on a
reviewer's behalf, or remove the approval altogether.

## Campaigns

A campaign that Orb [generated](https://orbitwrite.com/docs/guides/grow/campaigns#generate-a-campaign-with-orb) is approved as a whole.
Approving it schedules all its posts at their times; rejecting it sends them back to drafts.