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Dataflow migration to other environments

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Posted on by Anton Law

Hi, we have a solution in our development environment that contains dataflows, when we deploy this solution to our testing environment the dataflows are not visible so presumably there for not created under the dataflows area in power apps.

My question is, by adding a dataflow into a solution, and deploying that solution to another environment, should I be seeing a dataflow created in that target environment we are deploying to under the dataflows section? dataflows section I am referring to in the screenshot below.

If the answer is no then why is there a feature to add a dataflow to a solution? what is this used for if the dataflow is not created or brought over with the solution when importing it?

Also another side question, what is the correct approach to moving dataflows between environments? I can't find any documentation about this other than a few form post here and there saying to recreate the dataflows from scratch, what is the official line from Microsoft of this with regards to moving dataflows between environments?

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Anton

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Akash1ve 112 on at

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Re: Dataflow migration to other environments

once you deployed to test , have you checked your flow in All flows tab? because might be after deployment owner of the got changed?
Anton Law 8 on at

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Re: Dataflow migration to other environments

Any ideas on the dataflow with the same name issue?
Anton Law 8 on at

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Re: Dataflow migration to other environments

I think I have managed to figure out how to export dataflows, there in a share area under the home ribbon that has a Export Template button, this lets you export the template as a PQT template file, you can then use the import template button on the target environment under dataflows.

Target environment to import to

My question still remains though, is this the correct way to do it? why would you add a dataflow to a solution if you can just export and import templates, what is its purpose?

Another issue I am now having after importing the template is that the target environment I have imported into seems to think a dataflow with that name already exists in the environment when it does not, I can rename the dataflow anything other than what it was call in the environment I have exported it from, I have also tried clearing out the dataflow table to ensure there are no entries in there that may be causing issues.