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title: Creating change approval policies
description: Use the change approval policy to create change approval definitions and the change approval policy workflow to control the approval process for a change request.
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# Creating change approval policies

Use the change approval policy to create change approval definitions and the change approval policy workflow to control the approval process for a change request.

-   **[Create approval definitions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/create-approval-definitions.md)**  
Use approval definitions to define a set of criteria that are evaluated automatically before the policy is marked as approved.
-   **[Create change approval policies](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/create-change-policy.md)**  
Use a change approval policy to define approvals that should be generated for your change.
-   **[Change Approval Policy workflow activity](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/change-approval-policiy-wf-activity.md)**  
Use the Change Approval Policy workflow activity to control the approval process for a change request by creating user and group approvals according to a change approval policy record. Multiple activities can be used in a workflow, where each activity can reference the same or different Change Approval Policies.
-   **[Use the Change Approval Policy workflow activity](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/use-change-policy-wf-activity.md)**  
Apply your Change Policy in your Change Request workflow to manage the approvals.
-   **[Use the Apply Change Approval Policy flow action](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/use-apply-change-approval-policy-flow-activity.md)**  
Apply your change approval policy in the Change Management Workflow Studio action to control the approval process for a change request. You can create user and group approvals according to a change approval policy record.
-   **[Create a Change approval policy using decision builder](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/change-approval-policy-decision-builder.md)**  
Create a change approval policy using the Change approval policy decision builder to define the approvals that should be generated for your change.

**Parent Topic:**[Using Change Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/using-change-management.md)