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Using Environment Variables in Canvas Apps

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I created an Environment Variable ('envType') in a solution. It has a data type of 'Text' and I would like to reference the variable in my canvas app. Is this possible? If so, how?

The purpose of the variable is to be able to tell if I'm in my Dev environment or my Production environment.

If it's not possible to reference 'envType' in a canvas app, how can I tell if I'm in Dev vs. Production?

Thanks for any help or insight.

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Pstork1 68,697 Most Valuable Professional on at

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There are two possible ways to do this.

1) If you have a Premium license, you can read the value directly from the Dataverse table where its stored using code like this

LookUp('Environment Variable Values', 'Environment Variable Definition'.'Schema Name' = "EnvironmentVariableName").Value

2) If you don't have a Premium license you can call a Flow to read and return the environment variable value. Environment variables are available as dynamic content in Power Automate.

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I don't have a Premium license so I just used a SharePoint list and used a similar lookup and grabbed the value that corresponds to the Dev or Production environment. Thanks!

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@Pstork1 - Regarding Premium licenses with regards to using environment variables in a canvas app, would all users accessing the app be required to have a premium Dataverse license in order for the environment variables to function? Thank you.

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If you want to access the Environment variables directly you'll need to add a Dataverse connection. That will require all users to have a Premium subscription. As I mentioned you can also retrieve the values using a flow without a Premium license and then return those values to the app.

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@Pstork1 - Thank you for the quick response and the great information.

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