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MicrosoftIntroducing "Request sign-off" - an approval flow that requires no set up
Hi Michael Droschak, Approvals data, including history, is stored in a Common Data Service database. Unless a database admin chooses to remove history, it will be retained forever.
Any guidance on how to access the Common Data Service database where the Approvals history is stored?
- Kerem Yuceturk
Hi Paul Conheady, the Flow team is working on making this available so you can query it directly. They did not give an exact ETA, but it should be before the end of the year, if not sooner.
I would like to understand how this works with the Common Data Service. My tenancy was created after the March update to the Common Data Service. This means that I cannot create a Common Data Service against the default environment. When I try to create any Flow in the default environment that uses the approval connector I am told that a Common Data Service does not exist and so the Approval cannot run. With this being the case if I create a new environment and Common Data Service (I need PowerApps Plan 2 do this) I can create approvals in that environments. So here is the questions when creating the "Request Sign Off" Workflow it always goes into the default environment and will not work as there is no Common Data Service there what do I do to allow it to work? My tenancy, Azure AD and Environments are all in the UK.
- Kerem Yuceturk
Hi Ben Haynes, we have received word about this issue with some of our UK customers earlier this month. The Flow and Common Data Service teams are working remedy the situation. We are sorry we did not catch this issue previously, we are taking some precautions to detect issues like this sooner in the future.
