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I have the Rich Text Editor Control setup on a custom table's main form. Using an unmanaged solution, I updated the control settings with a custom value for the "Custom Configuration URL" static value setting. When I import a managed solution that contains that table and form, the Custom Configuration URL setting is lost. How to prevent that from getting erased?

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Hi,

What you're seeing is solution layering behavior, not a bug.

The RTE control's Custom Configuration URL (Static value) is a property on the form control component, which lives inside the form's XML. Per Microsoft Learn:

Unmanaged customizations sit in the unmanaged layer, which is above managed layers.
When you import a managed solution that contains the same form, the form is updated in its managed layer — and depending on how the form was exported, your unmanaged property change can be replaced by the form merge logic (“Last one wins” between managed solutions, with the unmanaged layer overlaying on top only for the customizations Dataverse recognized as unmanaged).

How to make the Custom Configuration URL stick:

Set the Custom Configuration URL inside the same solution you're shipping as managed — make the change in the publisher's unmanaged dev environment, export the form as part of the managed solution, and import. The property travels with the form's managed layer.
If you must add it post-import in the target environment, put the change in a separate unmanaged solution that does NOT also include the same form from the imported managed solution. Otherwise, reimporting the upstream managed solution will overwrite the form's control XML.
Verify in Solution → Show dependencies / View layers that your Custom Configuration URL value is on the layer you expect.

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