At Cloud Kicks, new public articles must be approved before publishing. Users are asked to click to the submit for approval button to begin the process but sometimes the user forgets. How should an…

"Default the Submit for Approval button" is not a standard Salesforce configuration option to automate the submission of records into an approval process upon creation.

"Update initial Actions" is a vague term; while approval processes have initial actions, this does not address the automation of *starting* the approval process itself.

Process Builder (or Flow) is a powerful automation tool in Salesforce that can be configured to automatically initiate an approval process when a record meets specific criteria, such as a new public article being created. It can execute the "Submit for Approval" action without user intervention.

Creating a new record type and page layout can differentiate article types and their appearance, but it does not provide the automation capability to automatically submit records for approval.