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Hello experts.

I have a few different questions in my current project related to Canvas apps and their ALM/deployment process.

So we have Dev -> Test -> Prod env. The deployments are automated in Devops and we use Managed solutions in Test and Prod.

1. First question is about adding new functionality in the Dev env for the Canvas App. Say there are other parts of the solution that needs to be deployed to Prod, but I want to keep new Canvas app functionality in Dev, how should I best handle this? Which code is being sent to Prod, the "saved" version in the Canvas app or the "published/live" version of the Canvas app?

1b. If it is the published version that is sent to Test and Prod env through the deployments, do we just need to have this in mind, that we only save and not publish when developing new features that should not be sent to Prod? Or is there a better way...

2. Yesterday I tried to Edit the Canvas app in the Prod env, and it worked to change the code and publish it. Is this how it is supposed to work, even though it is in a Managed solution?

3. Any other thoughts about best practices regarding the deployment process of Canvas apps that are good to implement or consider. Appreciate any inputs. Thanks.

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Governance & administering

Hi @POJA85,

Solution Segmentation is something you should look at. It's a recommended practice in particular to put Power Apps (both Canvas and Model Driven) in a separate solution so that your core solution components don't take a dependency on your apps. This will allow you to achieve your intended scenario where you don't want to push any changes you're not finished with on your App but can push changes to your core components from another solution.

With regards to your concern on editing a managed Canvas App in production, this should now be addressed with the new ALM improvements that allow you to set Managed Properties on the Canvas App to prevent this from being customized in your environment when deployed as managed.

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