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Does a user need to be licenced in order to access a flow in a Sandbox Environment?

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Hi All,

 

I've created a flow that will create an approval when an email is received. 

 

This was originally built in a default environment.  I then exported & imported into a Sandbox Dev environment for testing purposes. 

 

When testing the flow it failed at the 'Create an Approval' action.  It stated that one of the approval recipients does not have a 'per user plan licence'.  Below is the error message:

 

The user 'XXXXXXXXXXX' cannot be created in Microsoft Dataverse because the account is not a member of group 'XXXXXXXXXXX'. Please ask an administrator to add user to the group.

 

Does the user need to be licenced in order to receive approvals?

 

Please note I have also added this user as an owner; the user has a trial licence and this worked in the 'default' environment.

 

Any advice would be much appreciated 🙂

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    Its not that the user needs to be licensed, but they do need to be a member of the security group that is securing the sandbox environment.  Environments other than the default environment are often secured using an Azure AD group.  You must be a member of that group to access the Dataverse DB to work with approvals.  You can see the group in the environment details in the Power Platform admin center.

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