Import solutions with custom connectors

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Hi,

I am new in power automate, and the power platform in general, so I started creating all my flows within the default environment. I have now realized my mistake and have created a test, dev and prod environment.

I then tried to import my different flows, packaged as solutions, into my newly created dev environment. A lot of the solutions transfered without any problems, except one of them. This solutions only differance is that it contains a custom connector.

Whenever I try to import the solution I'm met with this error(see attached picture). I have no idea how to fix this. I have searched around a lot, and some places it seems like you have to create the custom connector on each new environment, but this still didn't work.

So I'm finally turning here, hoping someone knows the anwser to my problem :)

Thanks,

Mikkel

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When importing a solution that contains a connection reference of the new custom connector into a new environment, the import process asks for a connection to be created for the connection reference. But because the connector doesn’t exist in the new environment, the connection can’t be created.

A workaround is to put the custom connector in its own solution and then first import that to the destination environment.

This is documented under the known limitations of the custom connector.

Custom connectors need to be imported first, before connection references or flows.

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Hmm. I tried what you suggested. Both just importing the custom connector directly in solutions, from already existing, and also as a solution on it's own with just the custom connector inside, no references or anything else.

It still gives me the same error when I try to import the original solution. I tried redownloading the solution to see if that helped, but no dice. Do I need to remove anything from the original solution before importing? Refernces, connectors, flows?

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Hey @MH-05110755-0 - I had this problem and all I solved it by importing the custom connector first, the connection can then be set.

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Interesting. I'll try again, but I doesn't seem like it works for me

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