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Automated ways of moving between environments that changes connections for you?

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What Automation processes are available to aid when moving between environments for Canvas Apps.

 

We use both solutions and export Canvas Apps to promote between environments, but there are a lot of connections to data sources which need updating between each environment. These take a while to update when moving between environments, and can result in missing a change of data source connections by human error.

 

A button or just a simpler process which can do most of these automatically would be ideal.  Are there many options do to this for us? 

 

 

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  • timl Profile Picture
    37,283 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    @lee-martin 

    Environment variables are one way to assist the process of moving connection details between environments.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/EnvironmentVariables

     

  • Dohsan Profile Picture
    28 on at

    @lee-martin 

     

    If you use Azure DevOps, you can explore using the Power Platform CoE Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling:

     

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/starter-kit

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/

  • Lee-Martin Profile Picture
    581 on at

    @timl  - thanks, but I do use them, and they still take forever.

     

    Also it's more the connections in the App itself that are the issue.

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