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How to create an App admin configuration record

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Our Model driven power solution has two sections:

1. Admin - configuration for the app. for example, API connection string to connect to an external app. Only admin role can configure this record. There is a single record for each org.

2. all user objects. the admin connection is used to retrieve user data

How to create the admin configuration object?

Thanks in advance

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Joel CustomerEffective 3,224 on at

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the way you are describing creating admin records like connection strings is the old way to do it. Now you should be using environment variables. Why? Because they are solution aware.
https://colinvermander.com/2019/10/30/using-powerapps-environment-variables/

You can create your environment variables from a solution, that way you don't need to update your app when you need to change them after moving your solution.

@jamesyang If this answers your question, please mark it a solution.

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Thanks! Environment variables may work. After importing the solution to another org as a managed solution, is there a UI to edit the env variables? In my test, i was able to edit it initially right after import, then I could not find the UI to edit the env variables again.

We plan to distribute the app to many customers via app source. some of the app configurations may not be available right away after importing the app by our customers.

So how to edit the environment variables of an imported managed solution?

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Joel CustomerEffective 3,224 on at

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Environment variables are just like any other record and you can query for them and update them in your canvas or model driven app like any other record.

But if you really want to do ALM with managed solutions and environment variables, use the Power Platform Build tools and use JSON to set the variables.

See Collin Vermander’s post https://colinvermander.com/2019/10/30/using-powerapps-environment-variables/

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