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Hello all,I've built a application for a client, the app is dependent on around 13-15 APIs and some tables. I want to export the solution and have my client install it on its own power-apps environment. The only issue is that the data-sources need get to re-established every time the package gets installed from the beginning. This is my first major power-apps project as the platform is new to me.Is this normal? What can I do to make sure that the data-sources do not get disconnected? I don't want my client to have to make the connections themselves. The product needs to work out of the box.Thank you.
Connection references need to be established with every install.
This is very necessarily by design.
For example, say you are using the Dataverse connector - the ID you used to build and test your solution likely does not exist in the customer's tenant.
Is there no way to automate this process? Through environment variables and power automate maybe?
Honestly - your request makes no sense.
Connection references are always local.
Setting them up is just part of the solution install process.
Hello again."Honestly - your request makes no sense."Clearly you do not understand my question so I will clarify it's background further.I am building an app for clients who may or may not come from different ERP systems and who have no knowledge of Business Central or PowerApps. The app is a means to migrate data into their Business Central company in a smooth way.I need the app to be versatile in the sense of data connectivity. Any client should be able to get this app shared with them and have the data-sources correspond to a environment variable(or an ID) unique to their tenant.Having 10 different copies of the same app with different data-sources connected manually(by me) is not an effective solution. Sure, it would work. But it is not what I am looking for to do.I am very new to the power platform, maybe what I am asking is not even possible.But that is why I am here, to find out.So yes, my request is completely valid.Incorporating versatile data connectivity would be a great solution to my problem, If it is possible.
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