Try It Out: Activate Our Approval Process

We're all done with defining our Approve New Position approval process, but in order to test it one final step remains: we've got to activate it. Before we do so, however, be careful! Once an approval process has been activated, its approval steps can no longer be edited, even if you deactivate it. The only way to make changes is to clone the existing approval process and make edits in the cloned one.

Once you're ready to test the approval process:

1. From Setup, click Create | Workflow & Approvals | Approval Processes to return to the approval process list page.
2. Click Activate next to the Approve New Position approval process.

The Approve New Position approval process automatically moves to the Active list, and a new field is displayed: Process Order. This field is important if we're trying to use more than one approval process at a time because it tells us the order in which each approval process will be evaluated.