Power Platform: Managing Environment Variables in 'Managed Solutions'
What Environment Variables are a great way to manage your solutions as they pass through DEV/TEST/PROD environments. They save having to manually update flows/apps during each change and test iteration. However there is a gotcha to understand when you're planning your next migration or app update. More on Environment Variables | Microsoft Learn Why The two issues I faced using Environment Variables were due to the ' Current Value '. Issue #1 : If you don't want the value you used in DEV to push through to TEST/PROD, you need to remove the 'Current Value' from your solution BEFORE exporting it. If this is not done, and you're migrating as a managed solution, the 'Current Value' will flow through to your TEST environment, and cannot be changed because the solution is locked down. When a single sentence in an MS Learn article can cause so much pain... Issue #2 : If you're like me and you realised this AFTER you'd already imported into another...