# Approve Project Plan

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**(project-plan-approval-1.png)**If you are setting up a custom business process for publishing a project plan, use the **Approve Project Plan** activity in it. It allows you to automatically assign the **Approved** status to plan versions.

Place the activity on the process diagram after moving from the plan approval task, where, in case of a positive decision, you need to change the status of the plan version.

## Approve Project Plan activity settings

1. Create an **App** type variable in the process context and link it to the **Project plan** app. During the process, the plan version whose status needs to be changed will be written to this variable. If you are setting up your approval process within the **Project plan** app, this variable is added to the process context by default.

2. Drag the** **activity to the process diagram to the process diagram, and open its settings.

3. On the **General** tab, specify the variable created in step 1.

4. On the **Description** tab, enter service information about how the block works for employees who are designing the process. Please note that the tab is available in system versions 2025.10 and higher.

To configure the publication of the plan in the business process after it has been approved, use the [Publish Project Plan](publish-plan.md) activity.

Select the finished process in the [project type settings](plan-approval-setting.md) for publishing the plan.