Calling child flows

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I have a power automate flow that calls a child flow. I have made sure the child flow shows the connections used should be our service account's connection. However, when ever I try to save the parent flow, it keeps telling me the child flow contains "run-only user' connections. But it doesn't. I'm in the GCC tenant. Not sure how to resolve this? Thank you.

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PowerDeveloperTP 357 on at

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Hello,

Could you please check if you have updated the run-only users setting with flow details page

Go to Run-only users

Remove any users listed there

Ensure it’s not configured to use:

“Provided by run-only user” Instead, it should rely entirely on embedded connections

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David_MA 13,966 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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I you set the flow to use the service account credentials, then make an edit to the flow and publish it, you then need to go back to the setting @PowerDeveloperTP shows in their screen shot and reset the values again.

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Hi @pow3r228 and @David_MA, I tried both of these and they still didn't work. I have a manual trigger (when a button is pushed) because I thought that's what I was supposed to have. Could that be the problem? I don't know what else to use.

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David_MA 13,966 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Using a manual trigger for a child flow is correct. Is the child flow in a solution? If not, you need to add it to a solution if you plan to call it from another flow. It does not need to be in the same solution as the flow that calls it, but it does need to be in a solution.

If you can take a screen shot of this, it would be helpful:

All the connections listed should be pointed to a connection owned by the owner of the flow.

If you've double-checked this and all the run only connections are the same as the flow owner, I am not sure of a solution. The only time I've had a problem is when I tell the flow to use user-provided connections. In that case, you need to share the flow with the users.

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Thanks, @David_MA. I just couldn't make this work so I modified the parent flow to update one record in the SharePoint list with a flag and then modified the child flow to have a trigger condition to look for a modification in the record with that flag. So essentially this will do the same thing, just in a non-elegant way. So, I can't show you a screen shot because it was changed. But yes, both flows were in the same solution and my connections did look just like yours -- it said "Use this connection..." and I didn't have any Run Only users listed at the top. I thought I was doing everything correctly. I am in the GCC tenant, so maybe something is strange there.

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