How to assign value to Group in Refresh a dataflow action

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Hi,

Is there anyone know how to obtain the value of a specific environment for this Group field in "Refresh a dataflow" Action?

I have 3 environments (development, testing and production) in the power platform, to provide flexibility for CI/CD, I would like to assign group by a valuable of a environment rather than fix the environment by pre-selecting it. Like, assign development env ID in development, while assign testing env ID for testing phase.

From the flow editing screen, I understand that the GUID of the environment is "646e30f0-ad6e-e10b-b7da-109e7e92efcc", however, it gave runtime error no matter I try to use this value or the name of the environment "XXX Apps Development" in the "Group". Instead, if I assign "646e30f0-ad6e-e10b-b7da-109e7e92efcc-31c688f59-australia", it success. What is the "-31c688f59-australia" means and how can I obtain this part of value? More precise to my question, how to obtain the correct value for an env for this Group field?

Thanks for any recommendation.

Kisnon

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Hi,

not sure around the extra word with environment id- But i think it is related to region where the environment resides. Besides that - does that dropdown shows the environment names ?

Normally if we supply the environment name in a variable as custom value in dropdown - it should work i think.

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Nived N

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Hi Nived,

I agree with you that the ID "11c6fb7-1b4b-e105-998a-811ada2dc6ce-31c688f59-australia" used for "Group" is not a normal GUID, but a combination of {Environment GUID]-[unknown Part]. The can imagine the unknown part "-31c688f59-australia" looks like tenant ID and region name. However, do you know how can I obtain this unknown part?

Besides, I have tried, just suppling the environment name as Text in Group is not working. runtime cannot resolve to a proper environment and hence errored out.

Any idea?

regard,

Kinson

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