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Everything you didn't know you needed to know about Power Platform Solutions

david wyatt on January 15, 2024

Solutions are the foundation to good Power Platform development, without them we have no proper alm and no good way for admins to view flows and ap...
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Jake Mannion

"Additionally Connection References and environment variables can be shared (to help with the visibility issue). This unfortunately cant be done in the solution, but if you go to the advanced settings..."

We were really stymied trying to enable multiple developers to collaborate on solutions + entities in shared dev envs. Typically we end up adding them as local admins to simplify things, but that always felt a little clumsy (overkill).

This is great - the whole article, really.

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david wyatt

Thank you, if you do need an easy way to share solutions I spun up a Chromium Extension to do it easier. powerdevbox.com/share.html

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Jaime López

Wow!!! The guide nobody must miss. Really great. Saved it to my bookmarks as having it in my pocket.

Thanks for sharing this knowledge!!! You are the guy ;)

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Ryan Perry

Great content. Though - I believe there is more nuance to changing a managed solution to unmanaged than simply flipping the bit. - Would love to hear others experience with attempting to do this.

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david wyatt

I suspect you are right, there are so many different moving parts. But in my experience so far it has always worked so worth a try.

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cflx

great article, applied the managed to unmanaged switch before as a workaround, so far no bad surprises