It is like master class. I know the solution concept, the pipelines, environment variables and also Sharepoint Lists are not included to solutions. But I didn't know how to dynamically change data source according to the environment using all. Thanks Reza!
Exactly what I currently need. I tried to read documentation from microsoft learn, it looked cryptic to me. After watching your video I started to understand the documentation as well. Thank you.
@@evaldasilginis3119 Not aware of how TH-cam handles that to be honest. Dont take risks :) but thank you so much. The thought is more important for me. Much appreciated
Masha Allah!. What a Smooth Explanation. I was always confused about the environment variable. Even I was not getting it understood from ChatGPT also. You made it simple Reza bhai. Thanks a lot again.
A very good refresher for me but I still learnt something new. Didn't realise that you could create a new list based on an existing one. I've always gone to the blank and never bothered to look at the other options. Just last week, I went and looked up your videos from last year on Environment variables as I needed to improve some of my Apps and the understanding was really helpful. Again, thank you for so much clarity with your videos.
Great to have Microsoft's logic and structure explained. Well done! This topic shows, however, that you don't need to push it too far for it to be too unintuitive for citizen developers.
Thanks Reza, great video. Wish MS docs explained it as simply as you do!! Really appreciated you covering the DV aspects i.e. adding related objects. great insight.
This is absolutely incredible!!! Thank you so very much! I was concerned about using solutions and knew I needed to, but you broke this down so well and so easy and covered everything I needed to know!! Man and environment variables!!! For real!!! I sure hope somebody pays you very well sir!! Cause you deserve it!! Thank you!!
@@RezaDorrani , i need your help how to do left join in Power apps. There are two tables coming from SQL with Premium license i will take all columns from table 1 key is Primary key and table 2 having Key and other new columns i will update new columns in Power apps and Patch those into SQL table however i need only records of Table1 to update new columns how to perform Left join please asap
Great video. Thx. I'll now stop using 'string' environment variables for Sharepoint sites/doclibs references and use the 'data source' option. Did not know it could be done that way. Thx for the trick!
@@RezaDorrani I am good in canvas app and want to explore in modern app, I have seen some of your videos on dataverse and modern driven and want beginners videos on modern driven.
Crysal clear explanation. In one of the projects, I had difficulty exporting Dataverse tables and choices. So I'm elated that you covered that... Thanks buddy!!
Mr. Reza, Hello. Since I saw this amazing ALM video a few months ago, I am always checking your TH-cam channel to see if you've posted a new ALM video. For the first time. I'm planning to migrate the entire Power Platform system on my account to a new environment to be used from now on. (it comprises two Microsoft Lists, twenty flows, two Power Apps, one Power BI, a SharePoint team site that embeds Yammer, Power BI & Power App, and one Microsoft Teams group with five channels).Also I observed that I needed to utilize connection references in my flows based on my recent readings, even though I hadn't done it in my actual flows. My objective is to package these into one solution. I'm crossing my fingers so your next videos will address such issues. For now, I am analyzing this video to get insight but I am looking forward to your next videos to make my ALM more efficient. Agan Many Thanks for the usual mentorship
I’ve had a little experience building a Dynamics CRM system in a solution, but our contract hire originally set up the solution and the Dev & Prod environments. So I’ve had it on my to-do list to get someone to explain the environment & solutions set-up. This was very helpful, & the solution variables will be very useful. Thanks Reza!
Another great video Reza. This would def solve one of the challenges, in finding apps and knowing what’s associated with it. Idk if there is a limit on how many solutions there can be, but guess I’ll do some research.
@@RezaDorraniHi Friend. I have made some solutions including environment variables for datasets (Sharepoint lists), for some reason i can't see those environment variables, they are created en in the solution, but they don't appear in the environment variables existing, besides, when im making a flow, i try to use the environment variables (Sharepoint lists and sites), but they don't exist according to dinamic content. Do you know what's happening?
@@duvangomez8700 I have not come across the mentioned issue and hence not sure what the fix for your issue is. I recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Thank you so much Reza - your videos are so extremely useful. So much input and tons of helpful links nicely ordered in chapters - could not ask for more. Thanks a ton 💙🙏
Spot on. It's really helpful. Thank you so much. If you don't mind, can you please do the next video on how to update/upgrade/clone/patch solutions. They are very confusing ☹️
Incredible video and explanation, this has helped me so much! If you are accepting requests, I would like to know how to navigate to different screens with the access based on the department an employee is in, using data from a sharepoint list. The combo box is comprised of data from a sharepoint list that has a column for employee names and another column for their respective department. For example "Kevin" works as an inspector, when Kevin's name is selected from the combo box, the app should be able to navigate to a screen to start or edit an inspection form. If "Robert" is a manager, and Robert's name is selected from the combo box, the app should navigate to a screen listing the history of inspection forms submitted. I would really appreciate this, thank you!
I do take topic suggestions every quarter on community tab of my channel. I will be conducting one next month. You can post your suggestion there and if it gets a lot of likes(votes) then I will add it to my backlog.
Hi Reza, it's very very helpful and looking since long time . Thank you so much. Could you please guide us Power platform with CI /CD. Thanks in advance....!
Let's see the result of this video first. If successful, I will plan a follow up to this which would be automating the process of moving solutions across environments with ADO.
@@RezaDorrani Please create a video on CI/CD as well using Azure Devops... Your videos are already successful. You are really doing a great work. Always appreciated all your effort and hard work you put in.. Kudos
It's ok. Looking from you as expert, till this date no idea how to proceed with CI /CD and multiple developers working on same app, that's why I am requesting you. Advance thanks for your hard work put in. Any have the present video worth able for me at current time.
Every quarter I ask my subscribers for video topic suggestions in the Community Tab of my TH-cam channel. The ideas that get the most likes (votes), I add them to my backlog. Next topic suggestion post will be next month. Make sure to post this topic.
:) Expectation is that the beginner has built apps and is aware of concept of environments. This is related to ALM. Advanced would be full automated ALM via ADO etc.
15:35 - Export & Import Solutions across Environments Even though you remove the Current Value of an environment variable (and the Default Value still being empty), the flow keeps using that removed value, right?
Thanks Reza!, excellent explanation as always. Would be great if you can explain recommended procedure to copy or sync records between environment entities. Regards!
@@RezaDorrani I’m thinking in a recommended procedure to copy static dim tables records from one environment to another. For example is the best practice to use Dataflows and OData connectors to copy Dataverse entities records between environments? Thks!
@@arlequin71 Im assuming Yes but I have never done that. I will recommend checking on forums at powerusers.microsoft.com in case someone has done something similar
Hey Reza, This is a such valuable video. Thank you for explaining solutions and environment variables. I was NOT getting it from documentation. At the end of your video you were exporting to production. I could not see the video for the TH-cam ending banner going across the screen. QUESTION: What is the outcome of importing into a SharePoint production list with existing data, in the classic experience?
What time in video was it shown where the banner comes up? You dont import anything into sharepoint. You import a solution in a Power Platform environment.
@RezaDorrani, what about the connections to Azure SQL database? SQL server is not an option in the datasource when creating the environment variable. Thanks.
Thank you Reza, why haven’t you made earlier? ;-) that would have saved me time and pain ;-) Very cristal clear summary of the topic that is worth to re explained by you. Thank you
Hi Reza, on the part where you create a Power Automate flow with a trigger of When an item is created, on my end, I can't see the add dynamic content option and can't select the environment variable I created. I use Power Apps Developer plan as my environment
This is an AWESOME video; it clears things up so much. One thing to double-check. We have a canvas app that has about 15 lists and 7 flows that use those various lists. I should create an environment variable for each list, right?
@@RezaDorrani Thanks for your reply. One more question if I may: I imported an existing app into a new solution. The app still shows in both places (new solution and Default solution), is that to be expected?
LAST question, I think: is there a way to tell in the PowerApps UI that an existing datasource is using environment variables? After I add it, it looks the same and the tooltip details are the same. Would be nice if there was a visual cue it is using a variable versus being hard linked.
Hi Reza, thank you for your excellent tutorial! I have a question: based on your first example, if I want to add or edit a column in the Issue tracking list, how can I make the change to the other Issue tracking lists that are in other SP sites? Do I have to do it manually or there is a better way to accomplish this? Thank you so much!
Reza, thank you for this video. I have a solution right now that utilizes a SharePoint list as the primary component and has a number of "For a Selected Item" flows hooked up to it. As you know, these types of flows cannot operate outside of the Default environment. That said, I would still like to have a test and production version of this app but cannot seem to do that in the Default environment as when I try to export and import a copy of it into the same environment, it does not allow me to do it because the solution already exists. Is there any way to do this? Beyond that small question, how are we supposed to manage ALM with these types of flows involved?
Hi Reza, not sure if you will see this comment on an old post but, I'm gearing up to move any old unmanaged solutions off the Default environment that predates having solutions and ALM. One of the biggest hurdles that's stopping me, is confusing my users when approving. In teams Approvals the default environment for looking as the received and sent approvals is our Default environment, this is where currently and flows with approvals in are on say 20 solutions, if I publish a solution to a production environment, managed or unmanaged then the user has to manually select the production environment in teams approvals from a drop down list to find anything for it, unless they use outlook i feel like this can really confuse our uses as they are not the best at finding things to begin with. What's annoying is, even if i went around every user and told the to change the drop down to the production environment, it doesn't save if teams is shut down. Do you know any work arounds for this or is there a best practise im just missing? Thanks
@@RezaDorrani Thank you so much for your reply. Lastly, I would like to know, do SharePoint virtual tables also require the same scenario for configuration in the 'Solution'? Thanks again . Love to learn from your video , Always.
Great video, Reza, thank you! With regard to the connection reference, whose connections would you suggest using in the production environment? Your own, the product owner or a service account?
I'm a bit confused with the Sharepoint solution. When the app is pointing to a specific sharepoint list does the imported application in the new environment create new instances of the sharepoint lists or does the new location simply point to the original list in the original environment?
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Thanks, Reza. This is a video I think we all needed. Keep it up!
Thank You so much. Many had requested this topic and to my surprise there was not much content on this.
It is like master class.
I know the solution concept, the pipelines, environment variables and also Sharepoint Lists are not included to solutions. But I didn't know how to dynamically change data source according to the environment using all.
Thanks Reza!
Most welcome
Wow, I am seeing this after 11 months and I am blown away. Thank you Reza.
Thanks for watching and liking the video
Exactly what I currently need. I tried to read documentation from microsoft learn, it looked cryptic to me. After watching your video I started to understand the documentation as well. Thank you.
Awesome! So happy to hear the video is useful
@@RezaDorraniI tried to donate but my bank refused to allow the transaction, claiming it could be "risky"
@@evaldasilginis3119 Not aware of how TH-cam handles that to be honest. Dont take risks :) but thank you so much. The thought is more important for me. Much appreciated
Masha Allah!.
What a Smooth Explanation. I was always confused about the environment variable. Even I was not getting it understood from ChatGPT also. You made it simple Reza bhai. Thanks a lot again.
You are most welcome
A very good refresher for me but I still learnt something new. Didn't realise that you could create a new list based on an existing one. I've always gone to the blank and never bothered to look at the other options. Just last week, I went and looked up your videos from last year on Environment variables as I needed to improve some of my Apps and the understanding was really helpful. Again, thank you for so much clarity with your videos.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for sharing your scenario & thanks for watching.
Thanks for the video Reza!
Very easy to deploy my solution from one environment to another.
You are most welcome!
Yes, this makes deployments easy.
Thank you Reza. I feel like you just graduated me from Apprentice to Journeyman.
Congrats on the graduation 😃
Another AWESOME video and walkthrough by Reza!!! I cannot thank you enough! 10 STARS!!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank You so much! Much appreciated.
Thanks, Raza, for your effort in creating amazing videos that provide solutions to power app markers.
Most welcome
Thanks, Reza. This really helped me to understand Solutions and their purpose. Great job!
Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching.
Great to have Microsoft's logic and structure explained. Well done!
This topic shows, however, that you don't need to push it too far for it to be too unintuitive for citizen developers.
Thanks
An intuitive and comprehensive video! Thank you
Most welcome
Thanks Reza, great video. Wish MS docs explained it as simply as you do!! Really appreciated you covering the DV aspects i.e. adding related objects. great insight.
You’re most welcome. Thanks for watching
This is awesome 👌 its going to make my work easier next time that I need to deploy an update.
Excellent video, thanks a lot
Most welcome
This is absolutely incredible!!! Thank you so very much! I was concerned about using solutions and knew I needed to, but you broke this down so well and so easy and covered everything I needed to know!! Man and environment variables!!! For real!!! I sure hope somebody pays you very well sir!! Cause you deserve it!! Thank you!!
You're very welcome!
@@RezaDorrani , i need your help how to do left join in Power apps. There are two tables coming from SQL with Premium license i will take all columns from table 1 key is Primary key and table 2 having Key and other new columns i will update new columns in Power apps and Patch those into SQL table however i need only records of Table1 to update new columns how to perform Left join please asap
I am learning new always from you. Really amazing.
Happy to hear that. Thanks for watching.
Thankyou Reza! As always amazing article. I keep learning from your videos. Really appreciate it.
You're most welcome
Great video. Exactly what I needed. Thank you Reza.
Glad it helped!
Great Video, might every one know this: Now we can enable the feature; "Automatically create env~ variable when adding Data source"
Great tip!
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Was waiting for this video. Perfectly explained. Thanks. Lots of love from India
Thanks Palash. Love back to India. I was traveling to India today but sadly due to COVID like symptoms I had to cancel my flight.
Excellent video Reza! Will definitely be coming back to it when I work on my first solution!
Awesome!
Great video. Thx. I'll now stop using 'string' environment variables for Sharepoint sites/doclibs references and use the 'data source' option. Did not know it could be done that way. Thx for the trick!
Most welcome and thanks for watching.
both the environment variables and this solution video were so informative and amazing
Glad to hear that
Thanks a ton Reza, I am a big fan of yours.I have watched all your videos and learnt lots of this from you.
Thank You Umesh
@@RezaDorrani thank you Reza, please add more videos on modern driven apps.
@@umeshgaur6960 Il be asking video topic ideas soon. Post your topic suggestions there. If it gets a lot of votes, I will add it to my backlog.
@@RezaDorrani I am good in canvas app and want to explore in modern app, I have seen some of your videos on dataverse and modern driven and want beginners videos on modern driven.
@@umeshgaur6960 If I get a lot of requests, I will make it.
Thanks for this video. I finally understand the use of environment variable in a solution
Glad to hear that.
Crysal clear explanation. In one of the projects, I had difficulty exporting Dataverse tables and choices. So I'm elated that you covered that... Thanks buddy!!
Great to hear!
Many Thanks!
I didn't use solutions yet, but your video well explained the basic concept. Licencing issues as well. Great :-)
Solutions does not require premium licensing. It's called out in video.
Thanks Reza, useful concepts to understand ALM. Great work!
Glad it was helpful!
Mr. Reza, Hello. Since I saw this amazing ALM video a few months ago, I am always checking your TH-cam channel to see if you've posted a new ALM video. For the first time. I'm planning to migrate the entire Power Platform system on my account to a new environment to be used from now on. (it comprises two Microsoft Lists, twenty flows, two Power Apps, one Power BI, a SharePoint team site that embeds Yammer, Power BI & Power App, and one Microsoft Teams group with five channels).Also I observed that I needed to utilize connection references in my flows based on my recent readings, even though I hadn't done it in my actual flows. My objective is to package these into one solution. I'm crossing my fingers so your next videos will address such issues. For now, I am analyzing this video to get insight but I am looking forward to your next videos to make my ALM more efficient. Agan Many Thanks for the usual mentorship
My next video is not going to be on ALM :)
I make videos when I receive multiple requests on a topic.
I have 7-8 videos lined up for next 2 months.
@@RezaDorrani Well noted Sir. As usual, I Will upgrade myself with your next videos till ALM comes. thanks
Great video, Reza, thank you! Very important topic.
Glad you liked it!
Another Great Video!!.. This is the video which I was waiting for Thank you so much!!!
Glad to hear that and thanks for watching
This is awesome, and certainly going to speed up some builds with environment variables
It certainly helps speed up builds. Thanks Billy
Thank you so much for this video.. I was searching for this content since long..
Most welcome
I’ve had a little experience building a Dynamics CRM system in a solution, but our contract hire originally set up the solution and the Dev & Prod environments. So I’ve had it on my to-do list to get someone to explain the environment & solutions set-up.
This was very helpful, & the solution variables will be very useful.
Thanks Reza!
Glad to hear that! Thank You for watching.
Another great video - thanks for this detailed video Reza
You’re most welcome
Another fantastic video about solutions, thank you Reza!
You’re most welcome
Great, clear video.
Thanks Reza.
Glad it was helpful!
Well made. I got required info
Thanks a lot Reza.
Glad to hear!
Thanks Reza 🙏..Once again great explanation.now i have cleared idea about the concept..
Great!
Just what I needed. What a timing!
Awesome
Very useful video Reza! Hope you make another video on how to update the managed solutions from dev to production using best practices!
That is the plan. Waiting to see the overall response to this video.
Great video, thanks for sharing the knowledge.
You’re most welcome
Incredible ! Thankyou Reza.
Most welcome
Another great video Reza. This would def solve one of the challenges, in finding apps and knowing what’s associated with it. Idk if there is a limit on how many solutions there can be, but guess I’ll do some research.
I don’t think there is any limit. Solutions are created in Dataverse. The more capacity you have, the more solutions you can create.
This is awesome!!, Thanks for sharing you're knowledge.
Glad it was helpful!
@@RezaDorraniHi Friend.
I have made some solutions including environment variables for datasets (Sharepoint lists), for some reason i can't see those environment variables, they are created en in the solution, but they don't appear in the environment variables existing, besides, when im making a flow, i try to use the environment variables (Sharepoint lists and sites), but they don't exist according to dinamic content. Do you know what's happening?
@@duvangomez8700 I have not come across the mentioned issue and hence not sure what the fix for your issue is. I recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
@@RezaDorrani I Will, thanks mate
Thank you Reza i always learn something from your videos 👏👏👏
Great to hear! Thanks so much for watching.
Thanks Reza, Very Good Explanation you are Marvelous
You are most welcome
Amazing tutorial. I just ca from lmms (a free daw software) and i decided to switch since it didn’t offer enough convenience. It was
👍
Very important topic , thank you for the video
Glad to hear that. Thank You for watching.
Thank you so much Reza - your videos are so extremely useful. So much input and tons of helpful links nicely ordered in chapters - could not ask for more. Thanks a ton 💙🙏
You're very welcome! Thank You so much for watching.
Great content Raza, Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Excellent. Thanks Reza. 💥
👍
Great video as ALWAYS!!!!
Thank You
Most Useful video,Thanks Reza
My pleasure
Thank you for the awesome videos.
Most welcome
appreciated all your works, Reza
Thank You
Spot on. It's really helpful. Thank you so much. If you don't mind, can you please do the next video on how to update/upgrade/clone/patch solutions. They are very confusing ☹️
Plan is to make this a series. Lets give this video some time to seed :)
@@RezaDorrani thanks Reza. Am with you 👍
Simply Marvellous!
Thanks Chris
Thank you @Reza. Awaiting next part of ALM of patch and clone the solution.
Thanks. Next part will depend upon the response to this part.
Great job as wie get use from you. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
very Interesting Topic...Thank
You're welcome
Incredible video and explanation, this has helped me so much! If you are accepting requests, I would like to know how to navigate to different screens with the access based on the department an employee is in, using data from a sharepoint list. The combo box is comprised of data from a sharepoint list that has a column for employee names and another column for their respective department. For example "Kevin" works as an inspector, when Kevin's name is selected from the combo box, the app should be able to navigate to a screen to start or edit an inspection form. If "Robert" is a manager, and Robert's name is selected from the combo box, the app should navigate to a screen listing the history of inspection forms submitted. I would really appreciate this, thank you!
I do take topic suggestions every quarter on community tab of my channel. I will be conducting one next month. You can post your suggestion there and if it gets a lot of likes(votes) then I will add it to my backlog.
@@RezaDorrani Sounds good Reza, thank you for getting back to me so quickly!
Great explanation. Thank you 🙏
You are welcome!
Great video and quality! Well done.
Thanks for sharing!!! I am big fan of yours.
Thanks Bharti
Thank you Reza, super helpful 🙂
Most welcome
Great video Reza!!
Thank You!
Thanks Reza for this wonderful video
My pleasure
Thank you so much! you made my day
You're most welcome!
Great Video! Thanks a Ton
Most welcome
Great video as always Reza! Would be nice to see some Azure Devops incorporation as well if possible 👍🏼
I have it in my backlog.
@@RezaDorrani Awesome, thanks Reza.
Thank you very much Reza 👍
Most welcome
Brilliant Reza...
Thanks
Hi Reza, it's very very helpful and looking since long time . Thank you so much. Could you please guide us Power platform with CI /CD. Thanks in advance....!
Let's see the result of this video first. If successful, I will plan a follow up to this which would be automating the process of moving solutions across environments with ADO.
@@RezaDorrani Please create a video on CI/CD as well using Azure Devops... Your videos are already successful. You are really doing a great work. Always appreciated all your effort and hard work you put in.. Kudos
@@mayankgupta247 Within 4 weeks I will come to know outcome of this video.
Agree. Need guide to power platform with CI/CD and run piping via visual studio as well.
It's ok. Looking from you as expert, till this date no idea how to proceed with CI /CD and multiple developers working on same app, that's why I am requesting you. Advance thanks for your hard work put in. Any have the present video worth able for me at current time.
@16:15 seconds. If current value is removed..do i have to repopulate current value in existing ( source) solution after exporting solution?
No
Hi Reza. Thank you this Video. It will be great if you create more video with Model driven part and guided how can we use react with model driven.
Every quarter I ask my subscribers for video topic suggestions in the Community Tab of my TH-cam channel. The ideas that get the most likes (votes), I add them to my backlog.
Next topic suggestion post will be next month. Make sure to post this topic.
Nice tutorial, but if is this is a beginner's guide, then I can't even imagine the advanced guide.😆
:)
Expectation is that the beginner has built apps and is aware of concept of environments. This is related to ALM. Advanced would be full automated ALM via ADO etc.
15:35 - Export & Import Solutions across Environments
Even though you remove the Current Value of an environment variable (and the Default Value still being empty), the flow keeps using that removed value, right?
Right
Amazing!
Thanks!
Thanks Reza for this wonderful video. Could you please make a video on CI/CD pipeline for automating this deployment activity.
Thanks in advance.
That’s the plan if this video does well.
Thank you for awesome content, really helpful!!
I have a query: Which environment type I have to choose while create a UAT/testing environment?
Type production.
Wow!! Got a reply within a minute, really admire your work style!!
Thanks Reza!, excellent explanation as always. Would be great if you can explain recommended procedure to copy or sync records between environment entities. Regards!
Synching records does not come under solutions. For that you would probably need to use dataflows.
@@RezaDorrani I’m thinking in a recommended procedure to copy static dim tables records from one environment to another.
For example is the best practice to use Dataflows and OData connectors to copy Dataverse entities records between environments? Thks!
@@arlequin71 Im assuming Yes but I have never done that. I will recommend checking on forums at powerusers.microsoft.com in case someone has done something similar
Thanks Reze for sharing this helpful video . Is it possible to extend this video with CI/CD with Azure DevOps ?
Possible if this video is successful :)
@@RezaDorrani we're eager to see CI/CD Power Platfrom. Please!
@@barrydinh No plans as of now.
Hey Reza, This is a such valuable video. Thank you for explaining solutions and environment variables. I was NOT getting it from documentation. At the end of your video you were exporting to production. I could not see the video for the TH-cam ending banner going across the screen. QUESTION: What is the outcome of importing into a SharePoint production list with existing data, in the classic experience?
What time in video was it shown where the banner comes up?
You dont import anything into sharepoint. You import a solution in a Power Platform environment.
@RezaDorrani, what about the connections to Azure SQL database? SQL server is not an option in the datasource when creating the environment variable. Thanks.
I have done almost no work with sql hence not aware of best practices there.
Thank you Reza!
Most welcome
Thanks for the video 👍
You’re most welcome
Thank you Reza, why haven’t you made earlier? ;-) that would have saved me time and pain ;-) Very cristal clear summary of the topic that is worth to re explained by you. Thank you
Better late than never :)
Lols!
Hi Reza, on the part where you create a Power Automate flow with a trigger of When an item is created, on my end, I can't see the add dynamic content option and can't select the environment variable I created. I use Power Apps Developer plan as my environment
Create flow. Save flow. Refresh page. Edit flow and you should get it.
Thanks Reza, to the point.
Most welcome
This is an AWESOME video; it clears things up so much. One thing to double-check. We have a canvas app that has about 15 lists and 7 flows that use those various lists. I should create an environment variable for each list, right?
Yes
@@RezaDorrani Thanks for your reply. One more question if I may: I imported an existing app into a new solution. The app still shows in both places (new solution and Default solution), is that to be expected?
@@dmvogan Yes. Its part of a solution but available in the environment
@@RezaDorrani Thanks so much for both replies and all your videos.
LAST question, I think: is there a way to tell in the PowerApps UI that an existing datasource is using environment variables? After I add it, it looks the same and the tooltip details are the same. Would be nice if there was a visual cue it is using a variable versus being hard linked.
Hi Reza, thank you for your excellent tutorial! I have a question: based on your first example, if I want to add or edit a column in the Issue tracking list, how can I make the change to the other Issue tracking lists that are in other SP sites? Do I have to do it manually or there is a better way to accomplish this? Thank you so much!
Check documentation on SharePoint site scripts and site designs.
@@RezaDorrani Thank you for the answer, I'll try it! Please keep going with this stuff!
Reza, thank you for this video. I have a solution right now that utilizes a SharePoint list as the primary component and has a number of "For a Selected Item" flows hooked up to it. As you know, these types of flows cannot operate outside of the Default environment. That said, I would still like to have a test and production version of this app but cannot seem to do that in the Default environment as when I try to export and import a copy of it into the same environment, it does not allow me to do it because the solution already exists. Is there any way to do this? Beyond that small question, how are we supposed to manage ALM with these types of flows involved?
That is a known limitation. Those type of flows are related to default environment only.
Hi Reza, not sure if you will see this comment on an old post but, I'm gearing up to move any old unmanaged solutions off the Default environment that predates having solutions and ALM.
One of the biggest hurdles that's stopping me, is confusing my users when approving. In teams Approvals the default environment for looking as the received and sent approvals is our Default environment, this is where currently and flows with approvals in are on say 20 solutions, if I publish a solution to a production environment, managed or unmanaged then the user has to manually select the production environment in teams approvals from a drop down list to find anything for it, unless they use outlook i feel like this can really confuse our uses as they are not the best at finding things to begin with. What's annoying is, even if i went around every user and told the to change the drop down to the production environment, it doesn't save if teams is shut down. Do you know any work arounds for this or is there a best practise im just missing?
Thanks
Thats how teams approvals app is set for now. Im not aware of any workarounds for that.
@@RezaDorrani ok thanks Reza hope that change it soon, or do you think they are pushing Approvals kit to replace this functionality in teams?
@@GoWstingray Im not aware of the roadmap there
Great !!!
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Awesome tutorial Riza thank you :)>
You’re most welcome
Thank you so much. This video saved my day. Btw, after watching this, I've one question. Can a solution export from one tenant to another tenant?
Welcome!
You can export solutions across tenants.
@@RezaDorrani Thank you so much for your reply. Lastly, I would like to know, do SharePoint virtual tables also require the same scenario for configuration in the 'Solution'?
Thanks again .
Love to learn from your video , Always.
@@acm-yo4mp I have not done much work with VT so not sure about that.
Great video, Reza, thank you! With regard to the connection reference, whose connections would you suggest using in the production environment? Your own, the product owner or a service account?
Product owner or service account.
There is a better option coming soon but I cannot disclose that yet :)
@@RezaDorrani thanks. Can't wait to learn what it is!
I'm a bit confused with the Sharepoint solution. When the app is pointing to a specific sharepoint list does the imported application in the new environment create new instances of the sharepoint lists or does the new location simply point to the original list in the original environment?
Imported solutions do not create new lists. You need those pre-created. With environment variables, you have option to point to new lists.