Like any other platform feature, approval processes come with limitations (with great powers come great responsibilities, after all!). The following limits refer to the winter 2020 platform release:
- Total active approval processes per org: 1,000
- Total approval processes per org: 2,000
- Total approval processes per object: 300
- Steps per process: 30
- Actions per section (initial submission, final approval, final rejection, recall): 40
- Maximum number of approvers per step: 25
- Maximum number of characters in approval request comments: 4,000 (for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean the limit is 1,333 characters)
Approval submission is a manual operation. The user must click the Submit for Approval button to start the approval, but with a process builder (or Apex code) you can automatically start an approval process when specific conditions apply (for example, if...
