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Unable to use PowerApps datasource after registering on a free trial

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Hello community I hope you can help me, so here's my dilemma I applied to a company as a PowerApps developer part of the company's assessment is to build an app plus 1 approval flow. Although I did mention before to the company that I don't have a PowerApps license they told me that they could provide a dev environment for me to continue the assessment so I didn't think much about it. When the assessment instructions arrived part of it is for me to create a trial account  which I did I was abled to create a trial account and was abled to create a Canvas app. However I don't have access to a datasource my initial plan was to use excel but the patch function is not working because excel tables don't have an auto incrementing id so pivoted with SP list which I don't have access then I tried dataverse also no access (unable to create a database). Since I have no datasource I also can't use Power Automate I tried tweaking the settings on the Admin center but to no avail I don't know what else to do my assumption is that a datasource is included on the free trial that I registered. I was never given admin access before so I am not familiar with the policies setting up PowerApps has become more of a challenge than the assessment itself  I hope you can help me. Thank you! 

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  • Pstork1 Profile Picture
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    What email address did you use for the free trial?  If they provided you with a dev environment then you should have a work or school account from them to access the dev environment. That would give you access to the data sources.  Check that you followed this article to get your trial.  Sign up for Power Apps Developer Plan - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

  • jan_mac Profile Picture
    106 on at

    it is okay now they gave me a new environment after raising the issue to them. Thank you!

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