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# What's New in Sustainability: Sustainability Journals Approval (2025 release wave 2)

> Sustainability journal approvals in Business Central (2025 release wave 2): a workflow template lets companies route sustainability journal batches through the standard approval workflow, for CSRD-type reporting control. Approval works on the whole batch only, not per line.

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA) · Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (YouTube) · 2025-10-01 · 4:03 · tier official · reviewed (checked by Opus)

## Overview

The video covers why larger companies that must report under CSRD or similar regulations want an approval step on sustainability journals, to improve compliance and control. It describes a new workflow template for sustainability journal batch approval that reuses the existing Business Central approval workflow functionality, with no custom development.

It then goes through the setup and shows a live demonstration. Users send or cancel an approval request from the sustainability journal. The approval runs like any other Business Central approval workflow.

## Key points

- Approval is available for a whole sustainability journal batch only, not per individual line.
- A new workflow template for sustainability journal batch approval is provided and uses the standard Business Central approval workflow functionality.
- Setup needs minimal additional configuration; the pages mentioned are Workflows and Approval user setup.
- From the Sustainability journal page, users can send or cancel an approval request for a batch.
- Requests are handled on the Approvals page, the same as other approval workflows in Business Central.
- The motivation given is compliance and control for companies that report under CSRD or similar regulations.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=0s) Introduction and motivation for sustainability journal approvals
- [0:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=31s) Business value and compliance requirements
- [1:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=63s) Standard approval workflow implementation
- [1:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=95s) Setup and configuration overview
- [1:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=107s) Live demonstration of approval workflow
- [3:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=191s) Summary and next steps
- [3:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=215s) Resources and closing remarks

## Features

Every feature below: status not stated, demoed.

| Feature | At |
|---|---|
| Sustainability journal approvals | [0:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=19s) |
| Sustainability journal batch approval workflow template | [1:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=63s) |
| Approval request control for sustainability journal | [1:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=85s) |

## AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

- [page 6219 "Sustainability Journal"](../objects/page/6219.md) at [2:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=156s)
- [page 832 "Approvals"](../objects/page/832.md) at [2:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=174s)
- [page 1500 "Workflows"](../objects/page/1500.md) at [2:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=124s)
- [page 663 "Approval User Setup"](../objects/page/663.md) at [2:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=137s)

## Quotes

- [0:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=31s) "for bigger companies who need to report they would like to have this approval process to improve compliance and control"
- [1:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=85s) "you can run from sustainability journal approval only for one batch. So not per line, only for whole batch"
- [1:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr0xwgpomA&t=95s) "user can choose to send approval request or to cancel approval request"

Presenters (as heard): Alexander, Jacob Bang.