Harnessing Environment Variables in the Power Platform

[@jalbr74]

Extreme helpful and easy to follow, thank you!

[@BulbDigital]

Happy to hear that! 😊

[@BenGur]

Thanks... that was really useful. Have you done a video on Application Lifecycle Managment in Power Apps? Would love to see that, including using environment variables, etc.

[@BulbDigital]

Great suggestion! We have something coming soon! 😁

[@BulbDigital]

We also have this video in the meantime - kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3jTeq1nYpWCjLM

[@sharmasanjay379]

Hi, I was wondering if we can enable change tracking in Environment Variable tables. Can we use Environment Variables in Azure Synapse?

[@BulbDigital]

Sanjay, unfortunately you cannot enable the Environment Variable Value table for change tracking. All of these configuration options are disabled when editing the properties of this table, likely for good reason, it is a bullt-in entity in Dataverse. It also looks like this is the thing that would in theory prohibit you from adding the same table to Azure Synapse Link which is documented here... learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/azure-synapse-link-synapse.

[@ibro99]

So what is the scope of an environment variable ? Is it per environment or per solution? Can I have two similar solutions which use the same environment variable but with different values in each solution ?

[@BulbDigital]

Environment variables are scoped for the environment. One value for an environment variable per environment.

[@General_halap]

Awesome. Thank you

[@BulbDigital]

You're welcome!

[@robleenheer]

Why does this work for everyone, but when I try it I get red crinkles and "Name isn't valid" under 'Environment Variable Definitions'.'Display Name': LookUp('Environment Variable Values', 'Environment Variable Definitions'.'Display Name' = "MyEnvironmentVariable").Value I tried loading the Data Sources 'Environment Variable Definitions' as well, which does away with crinkles under that part of the statement, but it still doesn't know ''Display Name' or any other right-typed property for that matter.

[@BulbDigital]

Hi, Rob 🙂 Did you add the "Environment Variable Values" and "Environment Variable Definition" table to your app?

[@johnbrennan8442]

Hello great video only suggestion is when you say you can imagine how you could use the environment variables I can’t can you give some examples please

[@BulbDigital]

Hi John, we have a full writeup that talks in more detail with some example scenarios here: www.bulb.digital/blog/save-time-building-your-flows-with-environment-variables

[@clayl1n997]

THis was an awesome tip till I realized you need premium licensing to access env variables through the app like this.