How to Approve/Reject a post using ContentStudio

Whenever a team member assigns you a post to approve before it gets scheduled to be published, the following is what you can do with the post as an Approver

Approve a post before it is scheduled to be published
Reject a post If you do not want it to be published on your social media platform
Add Comments for the other team members
Mention other team members in the comments
Reschedule the post that you haven't reviewed and the scheduled time has passed

Get access to the assigned post:

Whenever a team member assigns you (an approver) a post to approve, you will get an Email Notification on your registered email address and a Notification within the ContentStudio app from which you can directly get access to the post.

A: Open the post via Email :

Open your registered email
Click on the "Review Content" button
If you are already logged in you will be navigated directly to the assigned post otherwise you would have to log in to view the post

B: Open the post via In-App Notification:

Login to your Contentstudio's account
Click on the bell icon and you will see the notification list
Click on the desired notification
You will be navigated to the post

Under Review Posts

A.1: Approve Post

This option allows you to approve the assigned post before it gets scheduled to be published.

Get access to the post that is assigned to you for approval (follow the steps mentioned above in "**Get access to the assigned post**"
Review the assigned post and click Approve Button
The assigned post is approved and marked as scheduled whereas the assignor is notified via email / in-app notification

A.2: Approve Post with Comments

This option allows you to leave comments while approving the assigned post before it gets scheduled to be published.

Get access to the post that is assigned to you for approval (follow the steps mentioned above in "**Get access to the assigned post**"
Review the assigned post
Click arrow dropdown with Approve Button and click Approve with Comment
Enter your comments and click Add & Approve
The assigned post is approved and marked as scheduled whereas the assignor is notified via email / in-app notification

B.1: Reject Post

This option rejects the post, preventing it from being published (further explanation below)

Get access to the post that is assigned to you for approval (follow the steps mentioned above in "**Get access to the assigned post**"
Review the assigned post and click Reject Button
The assigned post is rejected and the assignor is notified via email / in-app notification

B.2: Reject Post with Comments

This option allows you to leave comments while rejecting the assigned post and moving it to the Rejected status.

Get access to the post that is assigned to you for approval (follow the steps mentioned above in "**Get access to the assigned post**"
Review the assigned post
Click arrow dropdown with Reject Button and click Reject with Comment
Enter your comments and click Add & Reject
The assigned post is rejected and the assignor is notified via email / in-app notification

C: Draft Post - Approve/Reject:

Since a draft post does not have a scheduled time to post, when approving the post you would be asked to either Post Now or Schedule it for a future date.

Rejecting the draft post will reject the post automatically and will not ask for a scheduled time

Missed Review Posts

This happens when you cross the planned date/time of posting without approving or rejecting the post. You can access the Missed review post by going into the Filters and selecting "**Missed Review**" or by clicking on the notification

Things an Approver can do with a missed review post:

Schedule
Add to Content Category
Add to Queue
Skip

Schedule: since the previously scheduled time has already passed you can reschedule it to a future time.
Posts that have previously been scheduled will show the option to schedule only.

Add to Queue, publishing at the next queued time slot.
Posts that had been added to Queue will show the option to either to schedule or add to the queue after approval.
Add to Content Category, publishing at the set time slot for that content category.
Posts that had been added to a Content Category will show the option to either Schedule or add to Content Category after approval.
Skip: You can leave the post to be approved by someone else from your team by clicking on Skip, someone else will do this! In this case, other team members will have an option to approve the post instead of you.

Approval Status

View the current status of the post, if it is published, scheduled, or awaiting approval

Get access to the post that is assigned to you for approval (follow the steps mentioned above in "**Get access to the assigned post**"
Review the assigned post
Click on the "Approval Status" button

When the post is Approved the status is shown like this

Approval Types:

a: Approval from everyone

This means that every assignee from the team has to approve the post before it gets scheduled to be published

*Rejection of these posts from any assigned team member would trump all other approvals and the post will be rejected.

b: Approval from anyone

This means that any assignee from the team can approve the post before it gets scheduled to be published Rejection would need to take place before any of the assigned team members approves the post, otherwise the post will be approved and will be scheduled to post.

Planner Views:

1: Feed View

The **Feed View** displays all content of the workspace that was created in an **interactive-visual manner**, showing the **media**, **content,** and **status** of the post in a preview manner. Here you can **Comment**, **Approve**, **Reject**, and check the s**tatus** of the post based on its **publication status (Approved, Published, Rejected, Scheduled, etc)**.

2: List View/View Content

To view, all created posts in a **listed** and **informative** manner.

3: Calendar View

To have a **birds-eye view** of all the projects scheduled for the week or month, click on the **Calendar View** tab.

You can approve/reject the post directly from this view by clicking their respective icons.

Applying Filters :

The following list defines the meaning of filters:

1) Status

Scheduled: All posts that are scheduled to be published at a specified time
Published: All posts that have been published
Failed: Posts that have failed to get published
Rejected: Posts that were rejected by an approver " Post is seen in rejected when an approver clicks on reject button after it is sent for approval "
Under Review: All posts scheduled or drafted that are pending approval from assigned team members. "Posts that are sent for approval and no action is performed by the assigned team member, it is not approved or rejected yet then it is seen in Under Review "
Missed Review: Posts past their scheduled posting time and are still pending approval from the assigned team member.
Draft: Posts that have been drafted for revision or review.

2) Assigned to The member of the group a post has been assigned to for review, approval, etc.

3) Created By: The team member who created the post

4) Labels: Labels that have been used on posts for quick filtering. Select the filter to isolate posts that have been labeled with the selection

5) Content Categories: Posts that have been published via a Content Category

Settings

Clicking on the three dots located at the top-right corner of the app will open up Settings

Your Profile

Clicking on Your Profile will lead to your profile personalisation where you will have 2 options you can make changes to

Basic Details

First Name: Set a first name that you would like your team members to see
Last Name: Set your last name that you would like your team members to see
Email: Set the email you would like this account to be connected to for all processes
Profile Picture: You can also add a profile picture to your account

Change Password

Old Password: Enter your old password for authentication purposes
New Password: Enter the new password you would like to set on this account
Confirm New Password: Re-enter the same New Password that you would like to set on this account

Email Notification Settings

How often

Immediately: Have an email notification sent to you as soon as a task is assigned
Once in an hour: An email notification will be sent to you once every hour
Never: Do not get any email notification.

When

Always: Recieve an email notification regardless of your online state
Idle or Offline: Receive an email notification only when you are idle or offline

Change Workspace

You can change your workspace by clicking on either icon in the top-left corner of the app as shown in the image below

After that, you will be redirected to the All Workspaces page where your workspaces will be presented to you in a chiclet manner. Clicking on a workspace will redirect you to the dashboard of that workspace

View Notes: Clicking on this will show any internal notes written for this workspace