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I used environment variables all the time so dev list in dev environment and real list in prod works great when using pipelines to move app through environments. However upto now I have only been using them with forms so I put the form datasource as the dev list. However If I want to use them with Patch do I do the same thing ? use the mydevlistname in the patch statement?


Patch(
 mydevlist
 Defaults(mydevlist), 
 {
 Title: "New Record Title", 
 Description: "Description of the new record", 
 }
)

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Hi,

Is this through SharePoint? Using environment variables in the solution will help. see link Use environment variables in solutions - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

You need to create a data source environment variable for the site and one for the list.

Then when you add in the SharePoint list in the app, you will click through add data source and when choosing a site, select advanced and pick your environment variable name.

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Thanks @realwillwright Yes it's with sharepoint and I already use them with PowerApp forms as you have described but my question is do they work the same if I'm using Patch? do I still reference the dev list in the Patch statement? with forms it's easy I pick the dev list as the data source but Patch it's an actual writting statement in a buttton so that's why I was wondering?

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Hi,

Yes you would still reference the data source in the patch statement. When you move it to the net environment you would update the variable and the same data source in the app would be pointing to a different list 🙂

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