use environmental variable in business rule?

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How do I refer to an environmental variable from inside a business rule? Or is this not possible?

I've created an environmental variable called stdCutoff in my solution. It contains a number. I have a Dataverse table CustomCutoffs where different teams can set their personal cutoff values. Most teams won't bother to create a custom cutoff. But if they do, I want a business rule that sets its default value to stdCutoff.

If I can't do this from inside a business rule, is there another way?

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Drew Poggemann 9,287 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @halifaxious ,

Environment variables can not be accessed from business rules or classic workflows so you could run a flow on the creation of the record and lookup the environment variable and set the value in the record. This is asynchronous of course and would not show as they create the record.

Business rule could set the value (or default the value of the field) but you would need to set the date in the business rule, which would not be environment specific of course.

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Drew

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halifaxious 217 on at

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hmm... sounds like environmental variables won't be very useful inside model-driven apps, at least not without coding something custom.

Have you seen any good examples of non-data-source environment variable use in the wild? MS docs only include the suggestion to store a pointer to a data source so that app installers can over-ride it in their own environments. I've stored a decimal number and there doesn't seem to be any good way to use it.

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Ram Prakash Duraisamy 5,593 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Halifaxious,

Trigger a Javascript and get the environment value, then later based on the condition or field, set the retrieved value or allow the user to enter the value.

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