Apex Approval Processing Classes

An approval process is an automated process your organization can use to approve records in Salesforce. An approval process specifies the steps necessary for a record to be approved and who must approve it at each step. A step can apply to all records included in the process, or just records that have certain attributes. An approval process also specifies the actions to take when a record is approved, rejected, recalled, or first submitted for approval.

Apex provides support for creating a programmatic approval process to extend your existing approval processes with the following:

• The Apex process classes: Use these to create approval requests, as well as process the results of those requests. For more information, see the following:
  • ProcessRequest Class
  • ProcessResult Class
  • ProcessSubmitRequest Class
  • ProcessWorkitemRequest Class
• The Approval namespace process method: Use this to submit an approval request, as well as approve or reject existing approval requests. For more information, see Approval Methods.

Note

The process method counts against the DML limits for your organization. See Understanding Execution Governors and Limits.

For more information on approval processes, see Getting Started with Approval Processes.