Viewing Approval History

Review past approval decisions.

Overview

Approval history is the permanent record of every approval request that has been resolved in your workspace - approved, rejected, or expired. Use it to audit who signed off on what, investigate why a workflow execution ended the way it did, and produce evidence for compliance reviews.

Every decision made on a Human node (or by a workspace approval policy) is captured in history with the approver, the timestamp, the linked workflow execution, and the original message. Entries are never overwritten, so history doubles as an audit trail for the approvals system.

Before You Start

You need to be a workspace member to see history for that workspace.
Visibility may be scoped by role - check with an admin if you expect to see entries you cannot.

Steps

Open Approvals from the sidebar.
Select the History tab.
Browse the list. Use the search and filter controls to narrow by workflow, approver, decision, or date range.
Click any entry to open its detail panel and see the full context, including a link to the workflow execution that triggered it.

What Each Entry Shows

Workflow - The workflow and the Human node that requested approval.
Decision - approved, rejected, or expired.
Decided by - The approver who acted (empty for expired requests).
Decided at - Timestamp of the decision or expiry.
Message - The original approval message, with variables already substituted.
Execution link - Jumps to the workflow execution so you can see what ran before and after.

Tips

Filter by rejected or expired when investigating why a workflow failed.
Pair an audit log review with the approval history when you need a full picture of who did what.
Bookmark the History tab for compliance reviews so you can pull evidence quickly.

Common Pitfalls

Confusing an expired entry with a rejection. Expired means no one acted in time, not that the request was denied.
Expecting to edit or delete history entries. They are immutable on purpose.
Forgetting that history is scoped to the current workspace. Switch workspaces to see approvals from elsewhere.