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Hi,

If let's say i want to create a new product called "SellOps"

can someone please answer my 4 questions?

1. Shall i create a solution with the same name?

2. Also should the publisher be the same name of the product or owner name?

3. should the prefix be the first initials of the solution name or publisher name? "so" for sellOps and "mn" if i name the publisher with my name?

4. Also here why the name for the publisher wasn't filled automatically without spaces just like the name of the solution? should i fill it with spaces or not?

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@DELDYN,

Follow the naming standard and best practice document

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PowerApps-canvas-app-coding-standards-and-guidelines.pdf

https://www.matthewdevaney.com/power-apps-coding-standards-for-canvas-apps/power-apps-standards-naming-conventions/

https://community.dynamics.com/blogs/post/?postid=a477a5d3-ec0e-f011-9988-6045bddb81f0

https://www.matthewdevaney.com/power-apps-coding-standards-for-canvas-apps/

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply but it doesn't answer my 4 questions.

My question is about solution and publisher. Not about canvas app

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Hi @DELDYN,

Normally, Publisher refer to department or a company.

1. Shall i create a solution with the same name? Yes, it can be the same. if you want to keep it simple

2. Also should the publisher be the same name of the product or owner name?

Publisher should represent the organization or vendor, not the product.

If SellOps is the product and your company is MindNest, the publisher should be:

Display Name: MindNest

Schema Name: mindnest

3. should the prefix be the first initials of the solution name or publisher name? "so" for sellOps and "mn" if i name the publisher with my name? Prefix is based on publisher

If your publisher is MindNest, then use prefix mn.

If you used SellOps as publisher (not recommended), you could use so.

Example

Let’s say you create a custom table “Project”.

With publisher MindNest (prefix mn), it becomes mn_project.

With publisher SellOps (prefix so), it becomes so_project.

4. Also here why the name for the publisher wasn't filled automatically without spaces just like the name of the solution? should i fill it with spaces or not? That’s expected — and by design.

Display Name: With spaces → “MindNest Solutions”

Name (Schema Name): Without spaces → “mindnest”

Prefix: “mn”

Creating a Publisher in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform

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@DELDYN,

1. Shall i create a solution with the same name?

Yes, that's usually best practice.

2. Also should the publisher be the same name of the product or owner name?

Company Wide - Company / brand name

Multiple Product from one Org - Organization name as publisher.

because this helps us who offered which solution in the time being.

3. should the prefix be the first initials of the solution name or publisher name? "so" for sellOps and "mn" if i name the publisher with my name?

Prefix name comes from published it is not coming from solution name.

4. Also here why the name for the publisher wasn't filled automatically without spaces just like the name of the solution? should i fill it with spaces or not?

The solution name automatically become system name (no white spaces) but published name is a input field which you are filling the publisher details.

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Hi Vejai,

So if i go with publisher name as company name like this
Display Name: With spaces → “MindNest Solutions”
Name (Schema Name): Without spaces → “mindnestsolutions” (all small letter)

and for the solution

Display Name: With spaces → “Sell Ops”
Name (Schema Name): Without spaces → “SellOps” (it gets filled automatically without spaces, but it didn't make it all small letter, the system made it like this SellOps (just removed spaces))

so does that mean that publisher scheme name should be all small letter, but solution scheme name can still be capatialized, as it got auto filled with capital letter?

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Hi,

Its not you cannot use Pascal Case in both Solution and Publisher. In CRM word, we always prefer lower casing in Schema Name(it make thing easier) :).

so does that mean that publisher scheme name should be all small letter, but solution scheme name can still be capatialized, as it got auto filled with capital letter?

Yes, its by default. Even at the time of entity and attribute creation the schema name will have captial letter(we always change to lower case)

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may i ask why lowercase make things easier?

so if i use camel case like this SellOps for both publisher name and solution name, then i won't face any issues right?

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Hi @DELDYN,

When you make Schema Name = Logical Name

You avoid confusion when switching between UI and code.

You can easily map fields in JavaScript, C#, Power Automate, etc., without cross-checking names.

You reduce human error when referencing fields or writing fetchXML.

It improves code readability and maintainability.

When you have both logical name & schema name the same, it will be easy when you do coding, no need to cross-check especially in JavaScript.

Schema Name vs Logical Name. – Microsoft Dynamics CRM Made easy

Dynamics 365 Tech Blogs: Understanding Logical Name and Schema Name in Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Dataverse

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