Co-Authoring

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Posted on by YoungPADawan

Hi all!

We're going to be 4-6 developers doing a PowerApps-project(canvas).
Have spend time reading and can't figure out how we in the best way can do co-authoring in the same app?
We have tried out the GIT-feature that's currently on a "experimental level", this might work out just fine, but if it doesn't, how should we do then?

Is it to build components in different apps and then add them as components to the main-app?
Will all code be inherited then?

Or is the other ways to achieve "co-work" within PowerApps?

Really appreciate your help!

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cchannon 4,702 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: Co-Authoring

This is a big problem in canvas apps. The new Git feature is the start of a cleanup effort that MSFT hopes to eventually turn into a more Office Online kind of real-time co-authoring experience, but we just aren't there yet.

Yes, you should try the experimental git feature, but if it doesn't work for you, then the alternative is to manually manage your own git diff evals. By exporting your app with the Power Apps CLI, you can create a code-like representation of your app that is human-readable (or, at least, developer-readable 😁). You can then have each developer working in an independent "branch" or solo dev environment, then as each one goes, they export the app and check in changes and let the diff eval options in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code help them to resolve any conflicts.