Overview

In channels with post approval, members submit their posts for approval and channel admins review them before they are published. This helps make sure posts comply with internal guidelines and are suitable for publication.

Prerequisites

• Post approval is activated for the channel.
• Channel members and channel admins must be members of the channel that requires approval.

Set up approval

1. Go to the Admin Console.
2. Click Content.
3. Click Channels.
4. Select the channel in which you want to activate approval.
5. Under Authorization, activate All members with approval.

From now on, every post that users create in this channel needs approval by a channel admin before other members can see it.

Posts created by an admin of the channel do not need approval and are published directly.

Create a post that needs approval

1. Go to the channel in which approval is active.
2. Create your post.
3. When you are done, submit your post for approval.

The channel admins get a notification that your post is waiting for approval. It is not published immediately.

Posts in several channels

If you create a post in several channels at once, approval applies to each channel separately. In channels without approval, the post is published directly. In channels with approval, it waits for approval. Before you publish, a notice shows which channels need approval.

Moved posts

If you move a published post to a channel that needs approval and you cannot approve posts there, the post waits for approval. If you move a post that is waiting for approval to a channel where you can publish, it is published directly. See How do I move a post to another channel?

Review and approve posts

For now, you can only approve posts in the web view.

As a channel admin, you see an extra tab in your newsfeed with the number of posts waiting for approval.

1. Open the approval tab in the newsfeed. It shows all posts that need approval.
2. Review the post and choose one of these options:
   • Approve the post and publish it.
   • Edit the post before you approve it.
   • Reject the post. It is not published.

Rejected posts are deleted.

Notifications for channel members

• Approval notification: you get a notification when your post is approved and published.
• Rejection notification: you get a notification when your post is rejected. It is not published and is deleted.