Data Source Environment Variables in Power Platform Solutions - SharePoint

Data source environment variables store parameters that are required by one or more actions in the connector and these parameters often vary depending on the action. For example, a SharePoint Online connection does not store any information about sites, lists, or document libraries.
Environment variables have been a powerful tool for a variety of ALM scenarios as they allow you to externalize input parameters from the components that use them. They’re now much simpler to work with and can store parameters required to connect to data using Data Source Environment Variables. This allows you to change the data sources (as well as other types of parameters) when migrating solutions to other environments.

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Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - Create solution and add components (Power Apps, flows)
04:33 - Create a Power App in solution
04:50 - Enable Canvas App to store environment variables when connecting to SharePoint as data source
08:06- Create Power Automate flow in solution
08:33 - Use data source variables in Power Automate flows
11:54 - Export a solution from development environment
15:57 - Import a solution into production environment
17:08 - Set environment variables when importing solution
19:40 - Subscribe to Reza Dorrani channel

[danielrumbak]

I wish I had found this video earlier. Thank you Reza! Your service to us in the community is invaluable! Thank you again!

[SauloOliveira]

No words to describe the value of this video, thank you Reza for sharing your knowledge with us.

[ericzheng]

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[gowrishankarg]

What will we do without your knowledge sessions like this? 🤔 .. Thanks, Reza, for this and for all your video sessions. Your service is so very valuable and very much appreciated.

[krowemoh]

Reza, you are the man! Thanks for this super helpful video and for taking the time to share your knowledge.

[notonurnelly]

Perfect timing Reza, I have been looking at Solutions and understand how they work for Dataverse Tables but was wondering how SP sites and lists work.

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[nihar]

this is brilliant, informative and much needed for me to get practical view of solutions and moving them across environments, very much appreciated!!!

[miryam]

Again Reza, your videos have been a time saver. Awesome work and thank you.

[KamrulHasan-dzvp]

Wonderful!! Thank you for sharing and updating us.

[necdetsaritas]

Awesome. I have a lot of fun learning with you. Thanks Reza

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Many thanks for sharing... this is so powerful and makes life so much easier going forward 🙂

[sahilthakur]

Thanks for sharing Reza. This has made me keen to explore how will the updates happen to say your App or flow, once you move your solution from say QA to Production.

[DavidAdediran]

Great video Reza! What I currently do is to create a Choice column that represent the environments 😅. I will try this out and see which is better.

[sridharreddy]

Asusual amazing, you are the KINGPIN of Powerapps

[krishnabairi]

You are awesome boss 😊 This is an advanced learning topic for me but great video, Thank you

[harithakumariphoghat]

Thank you so much sir🥰 really very informative and understanding. i was tired of searching for how to achieve this. Really thgank you so much

[kalpeshpatil]

Hi Reza,
Thanks for the wonderful explanation about the ALM

[Leo_Russo]

This is really awesome! I was setting up the connections manually 😪

[gouravladha]

Thanks @Reza this is really helpful, I was really struggling with this issue as all apps were created in Production and have to migrate manually. Awesome :)