How do you use "approval process" in Confluence?

[Calvin]

Hi all, here seems to suggest there is an approval process in Confluence you can use:

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/request-and-manage-approvals-in-confluence/

For confirmation I am indeed on enterprise.

And I am indeed using a page, and I can see how I can add any random status if I want to, but I don't see this particular part of the documentation:

• Open the content status menu.

• Select Start approval to begin configuring your approval request.

• Add the people who need to approve the page.

Am I misunderstanding something? Cheers!

[Evgenii]

Enabled this feature, and exactly same situation. What is "Content status"? Don't see anything relevant.

Manual differs from reality.

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

Well, @Evgenii , you're lucky to have this feature available. I've checking every day since it was announced over a month ago and it's still missing from my Premium Confluence :( 

There's no "Status and approvals" setting in my Site (and spaces).

[Evgenii]

I found this option in "New Features".
https://your-company.atlassian.net/wiki/admin/newfeatures
After enabling it, "Statuses and Approvals" appeared in space settings.

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

Yeah, checked that too a few days ago. And now.

That's all I have. The latest news from two years ago :) 

[Sami Shaik]

Hi @Calvin , @Kris Klima _K15t_ & @Evgenii 
Adding one data point from a Premium sandbox where I switched Approvals on tonight and walked it end to end. What I found is that there are four separate gates in front of "Start approval", and the support page only mentions the first:

1. Plan: Premium or Enterprise.
2. Rollout: the feature has to have reached the site. It shows up as an Approvals row (labelled Beta, arriving switched off) at your-site.atlassian.net/wiki/admin/newfeatures. If the row is not there, no other setting will help; the Open Beta announcement comments say a support ticket can bring it forward, and sandboxes are enabled separately from production.
3. Space mode: after that toggle, Space settings gains a "Status and approvals" item with three modes. "Enable statuses only" lets you add custom statuses but hides approvals completely; it needs "Enable statuses with approvals".
4. Only then does "Start approval" appear in the status menu and at publish time.

Full walk-through with a screenshot of each gate here: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/Confluence-Approvals-Beta-the-four-gates-between-quot-available/ba-p/3278244. Thanks to everyone on this thread; comparing the different experiences here is what made the pattern visible.

I hope this helps.