Overview
A page or blog post in the Review state or Rejected state can be reviewed and approved by a user. A successful approval transitions the workflow to the Approved state.
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The workflow popup displays
confirmation of the approval process
button link to the Activity report for the page workflow events and actions
The page or blog post in the Approved state will transition to the Review state on
updating the page or blog post
reaching a set date when the content is set to have expired
There is no other option to transition the page from the Approved state to another state in the applied workflow.
Approved content expiry
The 
Approved state can be set to expire on a set date (and time), this is called a Due Date (or an Expiry Date).
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The due date is only active for the content when it is in the Approved state
If the latest content is a draft version (content is in one of the approval workflow draft states), the approved version does not have any expiry
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Choose the ellipsis menu in the workflow popup to view the Activity Report for the page. |
Icon colour
The clock icon in the approval workflow popup will change color to indicate the current status of the due date.
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 | The Approved state is not set to expire, but you can manually add an expiry date |
 | The Approved state will expire in 3 or more days |
 | The Approved state will expire in less than 3 days |
 | The Approved state has expired.
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This red expired icon will only be shown if the expiry occurs whilst viewing the content. When the content is reloaded or visited after the expiry date an approval workflow What happens when a page expires?
The page will return (transition) to the 
Review state. The change will be shown in the page activity and watchers will receive a notification.