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Issue using variables in Power Apps CLI Deployment Profile

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Posted on by NStone

Hey all,

I'm working with Power Apps CLI and according to the documentation (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/portals/power-apps-cli#use-deployment-profile) I should be able to lookup an environment variable from within my deployment profile to fill a value (eg, a client secret). I have not been able to get this to work regardless of what variable or notation I use. During import the variable doesn't get read and is simply input as a text string like ${ThisIsMySecret}.

Has anyone got this working or knows what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

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rcarrigan 67 on at

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Re: Issue using variables in Power Apps CLI Deployment Profile

Hi @NStone ,

Yes, I currently have this working in an Azure DevOps pipeline with the configuration as follows:
Pipeline variable named "ThisIsMySecret"
Deployment profile with variable named "${OS.THISISMYSECRET}"
There are two key points to note here:
Deployment profiles use *operating system* environment variables. Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pages/configure/power-platform-cli#:~:text=operating%20system%27s%20environment%20variables
ADO Pipelines transforms the text of a variable when storing as an operating system variable during the pipeline run. Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml%2Cbatch#environment-variables:~:text=When%20variables%20convert%20into%20environment%20variables%2C%20variable%20names%20become%20uppercase%2C%20and%20periods%20turn%20into%20underscores.%20For%20example%2C%20the%20variable%20name%20any.variable%20becomes%20the%20variable%20name%20%24ANY_VARIABLE.
Hope this helps! If it does, please mark this as the solution so it can help others, like me, that found this.
OOlashyn 3,496 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Issue using variables in Power Apps CLI Deployment Profile

Hi @NStone ,

Were you trying to use this in Github Actions, Azure DevOps or locally?
NStone 13 on at

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Re: Issue using variables in Power Apps CLI Deployment Profile

I tried this but unfortunately it was also unsuccessful.
Christian Leverenz 1,214 on at

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Re: Issue using variables in Power Apps CLI Deployment Profile

Hi @NStone ,

did not try, but the documentation says, that OS is reachable via that. So, may be you have to set an enivronmentvariable for example named ThisIsMySecret and address this with ${OS.ThisIsMySecret}

The way to set the environment depends a little bit on the system you are working on. In Powershell its as simple as

May be, this is reachable vis ${OS.X} 🙂

Hope it helps,

Christian