What Temporal Can't Do: Human Approval Mid-Workflow

📰 Dev.to · George Belsky

Learn how to add human approval mid-workflow without complex signal handlers and notification services

intermediate Published 28 Mar 2026
Action Steps
  1. Identify the need for human approval in your Temporal workflow
  2. Design a simpler approval process using existing tools
  3. Implement a notification service to alert approvers
  4. Build a UI for approvers to review and approve tasks
  5. Integrate the approval step into your Temporal workflow
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and engineers working with Temporal workflows can benefit from this knowledge to simplify their workflow approval processes

Key Insight

💡 You don't need to build a signal handler and notification service from scratch to add human approval mid-workflow

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Learn how to add human approval mid-workflow without complex signal handlers and notification services

Full Article

Temporal gives you durable execution. But adding a human approval step mid-workflow requires building a signal handler, notification service, and UI. There's a simpler way.
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