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hi everyone kevin here today we are going to take a first look at the brand new approvals app in microsoft teams when would you ever use an approvals app well maybe you have a new cookie recipe and you need the president of your cookie company to sign off on all new recipes you can use the approvals app for that first off we're going to look at how you can both request and grant approval from directly within the app then we'll look at how you can do it from a chat or a channel and lastly we'll also look at how you can do it outside of the context of microsoft teams let's say for example from sharepoint all right well why don't we jump on the pc and let's check this out here i am in microsoft teams and first off i want to show you how you can get the approvals app and there are two different ways you can get to it down in the bottom left hand corner we can click on the apps icon once this opens up this shows you all of the different apps that you can add to microsoft teams up in the top left hand corner you can search for apps let's type in approvals up here in the top left hand corner we see a result for the new approvals app you can click on it here alternatively we can also click on the ellipsis over on the navigation bar on the left hand side and here too you can also search for approvals and then you could click on it here let's click on approvals this opens up the approvals app if this is something that is going to be part of your daily workflow you can also pin the approvals app so you have easy access to it over on the left hand side you'll now see an icon for approvals if you right click on it you can pin this app to your navigation bar now that we're in the approvals app let's take a moment to orient ourselves to the experience over on the left hand side we see two separate categories the first one is received and here i can see all of the approval requests of me so basically people want me to approve things and over here on the right hand side i'll see a list of all of those requests over on the left hand side i can also see all of the approval requests that i've sent to others so basically i want someone else to approve something for me up above there's a hamburger icon and when i click on this it hides all of those different categories and when i click on it again it'll show all of the categories over on the right hand side in this table i can see some high level details of my request here i could see the title i...