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Questions about Managed/Unmanaged Solutions

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Hello, I'm wondering if I can get some clarity on a few things regarding unmanaged vs managed solutions. We took delivery of a power app (built by consultant) that integrates with Azure data factory, etc and another separate API to bring in data. Hundreds of tables, etc. 

 

The delivery we took is a production app, and the solution is managed. We would like to make a copy of it to put in a test environment so we can make custom changes and promote those changes to production when needed. So, it's a backwards situation currently. I've made a few changes in the production environment (to the UI), the ones I was comfortable making without a test environment. 

 

When I go to create a new solution so I can export the app to my new environment, I don't see any of those changes I made. 

 

  1. Is this because I made changes to a managed solution? Am I correct that I would have needed to make changes to an unmanaged solution only if I wanted those to show up in a new environment after export?
  2. Also, when I import the app into the new environment, it says I can't import it because its missing some needed tables. I don't see those tables in the original solution even. Any ideas where I could look for missing resources? 

Thanks, any help would be welcome. 

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    1) Yes, you have an unmanaged layer in your managed solution in production and that is blocking any changes that you export.

    2) You can get a report of the dependencies that are missing.  But I suspect they are something that was created in the production environment by some other solution that you consultant installed.

     

    What you need to do to accomplish what you want is to ask the consultant to give you an unmanaged solution. Then you can install that first in your own development environment and export it from there as a managed solution.  There really is no clean way to do what you want if you are going to start with a managed solution in production.

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    Thanks for the reply, this is helpful. I will go back to the consultant and see about getting this set up the way we need. 

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