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Error in Document Approval setup through Power Automate

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Posted on by Shyam Sunder Singh

Hi,

I am getting the below error while setting up the Document Approval through Power Automate in Business Central cloud. 

The request failed. Error code: 'CdsInstanceInAdminOnlyMode'. Error Message: 'The Microsoft Dataverse instance is in AdminOnly mode and Power Automate cannot access the database. Your environment admin must enable the instance for all users for Approvals to function.'.

Please guide me where I need to go and provide the access of database to all user. 

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    IB-29041624-0 1,191 Moderator on at

    Please check if you need to change the admin mode for your environment as described here:

    docs.microsoft.com/.../admin-mode

    After you do this change it can take up to 72 hours before you will be able to access it from PowerAutomate.

    Also check your license assignments to make sure you have the Power Automate Free liceens that comes with Business Central assigned to you and the other users.

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    YUN ZHU 101,995 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi, hope the following helps.

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/The-request-failed-Error-code-CdsInstanceInAdminOnlyMode/td-p/917638

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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