How to Review an Approval Request

When a new release requires your approval, you will receive a notification email.

Read the Release Notes at the bottom of the email.

Release Notes summarize the changes made to a guide, wiki, or category page.

Click on the Review This Release button to view the guide, wiki, or category page.

Click on the link in the banner at the top of the page to view the Approval Request for the release.

Click on the bell-shaped Notifications icon on the right side of the site header.

When you have Approval Requests, the Notifications icon will be white with a small red dot on top, indicating unread notifications.

From the Notifications menu, select an Approval Request Notification or a Reminder Notification.

A briefcase icon represents the Approval Request Notifications.

An exclamation mark icon represents the Approval Request Reminders. Reminder notifications arrive every 24 hours until you complete the request.

To open Approval Requests from the Notifications tab, click on your name on the right side of the site header.

This opens your User Profile.

Select View Profile on the user drop-down menu.

Select the Notifications tab on your profile page.

A list of Recent Notifications will open.

To review a request, select the link for the Approval Request.

To open Approval Requests from the user drop-down menu, click on your name on the right side of the site header.

Select Approval Requests from the user drop-down menu.

The Approval Request index will open to the Pending tab.

To review an approval, click on the Review button for the approval.

The Approval Requests page, featuring the Approval Sidebar, will open.

After selecting an Approval Request, the Approval Request page opens.

The Approval Request page features an Approval Sidebar that includes the release version, the release type (major, minor), the Stage number, the Request status, and the current date and time.

To review a summary of the Approval Requests, click the Release Notes header to view the release's notes.

To view the changes in the release, click on the Changes header.

The number on the Changes header indicates the number of changes that need review.

Click on a change to start the review process.

For details specific to the selected change, click on the View Change Details button in the upper-right of the page.

To confirm the change, click on the Mark as Reviewed button in the upper-right of the page.

A green check mark appears in the circle for that specific change.

"Done!" appears on the left side of the Approval Request Modal. This also confirms your review of the change.

You must approve each change, one-by-one, using the Mark as Reviewed button. You cannot approve multiple changes at a time.

To move to the next change, click on the Next button in the upper-right of the page.

Clicking Next highlights the next change in the sequence.

To undo the change review, click on the Undo button in the Approval Request Modal.

To view the approval stages, click on the Approval Process header.

The current stage and approvers are visible above the Notes field.

Write any applicable notes for the stage in the Notes field.

Click on the Finish button in the Approval Request Modal to complete the review process.

"Done! All changes reviewed" will appear on the left side of the Approval Request Modal.

Enter your user password to verify your identity.

To approve or reject the change requests, click on either the Approve button or the Reject button.

If this is the final stage of an Approval Process, your approval completes the process. The new release will be published immediately, unless the author has postdated the release.

Reject closes the release. It cannot be published. The publisher is notified. The rejected release can be viewed in the History, but it will not be published, nor will it be available for end users.

Rejecting a release requires the reviewer to enter notes. There is no minimum bound for characters, but the reviewer will be unable reject the release without entering something.

To review another request, click the Approvals List at the top of the Approval Sidebar.