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title: Enabling approvals
slug: enabling-approvals
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createdAt: 2022-12-09T01:17:42.000Z
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In the **Approvals** page, you can determine whether approvals are required for proposed changes to your organization and how they're handled.
### Enable approvals for scenarios
When you enable approvals for scenarios, scenarios go through an additional review and approval process before they can be merged to your Primary organization.
Instead of moving directly from an **Open** status to a **Merged** status, scenarios go through review and can be merged only when they have a status of **Approved**. [Learn more.](https://docs.charthop.com/scenarios)
You select approvers who review and approve all submitted scenarios and specific people to notify once the scenario is approved so they can merge the scenario. A scenario is considered approved once all approvers have given their approval.
To enable approvals for scenarios:
1. From the left sidebar, select **Admin**.
2. From the sub-menu, select **Approvals**.
3. Turn on the **Enable approvals** setting.
4. From the upper right of the page, select the button **Create approval chain**.
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When you enable approvals, you must define at least one Approval Chain. When an approval chain is not defined, the **Enable approvals** setting is automatically disabled.
Approvers must be users in ChartHop within a job. Approvers are automatically added to submitted scenarios as a collaborator with **Editor** permissions. [Learn more.](https://docs.charthop.com/collaborating-in-a-scenario)Select a fallback approver
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### Approval settings
Once approvals are enabled, three additional settings are available to configure how approvals work for your organization:
**Show approval chain on open job page**
Displays the approval chain on the open job page, so users can see who needs to approve a scenario before it can be merged.
**Send notification emails to submitter at each approval stage**
Sends an email to the person who submitted the scenario each time it advances to a new stage in the approval chain.
**Make approval comments optional**
By default, approvers are required to enter a comment when approving or rejecting a scenario. When this setting is turned on, comments become optional and approvers can act on a scenario without entering a comment.
### Disable approvals for scenarios
When you turn off the **Enable approvals** setting, approvals requirements are removed for scenarios. You can merge scenarios to primary without review and approval as long as you have the **Owner** or **Org editor** roles.
Any scenarios that have not been merged (with a status of **In Review**, **Rejected** or** Approved**) revert back to the **Open** status. [Learn more.](https://docs.charthop.com/scenarios)
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