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# Add Approval Gate

A gate is an access point which allows you to stop the pipeline to automatically go to the next stage. A gate helps you to manually intervene and verify or approve a stage of the pipeline before moving on to the next stage in sequence. Adding a Gate in ISD allows you to either automate your pipeline based on data from supported data sources. There are four types of gates you can add:

* Approval
* Verification
* Test Verification
* Policy 

### **Approval Gate**

An approval gate stops the pipeline waiting for an approval either from a human user or from a computer based on data from a supported plugin.

You can add a Approval Gate after creating a service and pipeline to the application. To add a **Approval Gate** follow the steps below:

{% hint style="info" %}
If you haven’t created an application already,  click [here](https://docs.opsmx.com/products/opsmx-intelligent-software-delivery-platform/system-setup/applications/add-applications). 

If you haven’t created your pipelines yet, click [here](https://docs.opsmx.com/products/opsmx-intelligent-software-delivery-platform/system-setup/applications/add-services/add-services-and-pipelines). 
{% endhint %}

1. From the ISD application dashboard, Click "**Setup**" --> Click "**Applications**" and then Click your "**Application Name"** as shown in the image below. This will take you to the Service Pipelines page.

![](/files/OODTGHMwHhRm7NtVQrj0)

 2\. In the  below image, a pipeline **deploy to dev** has been created along with the service*.* Click the *"***deploy to dev"** pipeline to make changes to the pipeline. After clicking, the following options will appear and click "**Add New Gate**":

![](/files/ZdtU40HvDsR6Q5UXxPok)

 3\. Next, you get the option to select the type of gate you want to add as shown in the image below:

![](/files/KcsXKR8Soim4myKHyg3T)

4\. Select the gate type as "**Approval**", you can do the following:

* Select the connector from the drop-down. The available connectors are:
  * JIRA
  * GIT
  * AUTOPILOT
  * SONARQUBE
  * JENKINS
  * AQUAWAVE
  * APPSCAN
* Select the Account from the drop-down.
* Select the template from the drop-down.

![](/files/ogSLLoOtzwxkyap14Bfn)