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I have a requirement to open a Canvas App by click of a button from crm and I can see a few examples already provided for this. The main query I have is that since I would need to code the javascript function to open the Canvas App using the App Id (of the Canvas App), would this Id remain same when the Canvas App is migrated across different environments Dev to Production. Can someone who has used this approach please clarify.

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WarrenBelz 153,034 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @bravoperss ,
I can tell you definitively that the app ID will not be the same as this value has to be unique to the app. Migrating (as you would know) involves making a copy of the app in the other environment, therefore the "old" app is still there and each now has its unique ID.
I don't know if this helps, but I control things like deep linking testing with a reference table (one in each environment) with the URL of the target app and simply lookup and refer to this in the script. When the app ends up in Prod, the reference of the Prod target is already there.

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Hi Warren,

Thanks for replying. How do you map the App ids in table to the different environments ? Is this based on Org name. We also do sometimes copy our test environments from Prod and the process gives random org names.

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Hi @bravoperss ,
On thinking it further, I did miss describing one step. When I get to Prod, I unlink the test list (which is on the test site) and link to a list with the same name and fields in the prod site. Only takes a few minutes, but I have a heap of other parameters there as well it picks up which I can freely change on the test version without affecting Prod.

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Sorry but I am having a bit of difficulty putting it all together. I get the point of maintaining a table to map the App Id but how would that work during copy of Prod to a new test Instance of CRM for example. I suppose the App ID would be new in this case. Would someone have to manually update the table each time this is done or are there options to query the App ID from Powerapps directly and auto populate this into some table by running a script ?

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@bravoperss ,
Now I see the confusion - Apples and Pears here. I have a SharePoint backend. When you mentioned a Canvas app, I made the wrong assumptions.

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