Approval

An approval task enables you to get the approval of an app owner or app administrator before the pipeline will continue executing. In general this task should be placed first in the pipeline, however you can place it anywhere that you require an approval. The pipeline will pause execution until the required approvals have been received. The following options are available:

• Approvers: Select who is required to approve the release. When the pipeline executes the approvers will be sent an e-mail to notify them that a release is waiting for their approval.

• Proceed on approval: If checked, the pipeline will continue executing immediately after all approvals have been received. If not, the 'Scheduled for (after approvals)' date will be used that is set in the release. Use this option for delaying the execution of a pipeline after all approvals have been received.

• Notification frequency: How often (in days) that the approvers will be notified that the release is waiting for approval.