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Resolving Connection References for Flows deployed via AppSource

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Posted on by Helpful 382

Is anyone out there familiar with this?

 

Scenario:

  • Customer is planning to acquire a product from AppSource that includes a Power App and Flows.
  • The Flows refer to Connection References for Dataverse (legacy) and Dataverse.
  • Customer admin creates new environment and sets up two SPN-based Connections.
  • Customer admin installs product from AppSource, however, there is no opportunity to assign Connection References to SPN-based connections in the environment.

Result:

  • Customer admin has to have a license for the Flows to activate
  • Connections are generated using the admin's credentials
  • Customer admin has to edit each Flow to use the SPN-based connections

This is a bad experience. Anyone have a better way?

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  • cchannon Profile Picture
    cchannon 4,702 Moderator on at

    Ah. Missed that in your subject line. I haven't tested from App Source, can't be much help to you there.

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    Helpful 382 on at

    Thanks @cchannon, I don't believe this is the case yet when deploying solutions from AppSource.

    Am I mistaken?

  • cchannon Profile Picture
    cchannon 4,702 Moderator on at

    When you import a solution that contains connection references from the Modern UI, it will prompt you to refresh the connections during import. The Classic UI that does not.

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    Helpful 382 on at

    For anyone that faces this or a similar issue, we have settled on the need for a post-installation step:

    • The administrator must go into the Default Solution of the environment and remap Connection References to the desired SPN-based connections (then publish, of course).

    This avoids the need to edit any Flows. Hopefully there will be an opportunity to do this at installation time in the future.

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