How To Use Environment Variables

[@RezaDorrani]

Environment variables are very useful. Well explained.

[@DanielChristian19]

*Aaaa Man* THE Reza Dorrani watched my video and gave me a compliment...😊

[@RezaDorrani]

@@DanielChristian19 😊

[@ImranAmiKh4n]

Clearest explanation I have seen. Thanks Daniel your awesome.

[@DanielChristian19]

You're very welcome!

[@necdetsaritas8722]

Amazing. Now I know what is environment variable and how can I use it. You are great Daniel!

[@DanielChristian19]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nigelprice9474]

What about if you aren't using CDS aka Dataverse ? If you have a canvas app which uses Sharepoint and you need to move the canvas app between environments eg dev to test to prod and you need to keep changing the connections ? Environment variables would be ideal for this use case.

[@DanielChristian19]

Hi Nigel, You will need Dataverse for environment variables. Hence you are not using Dataverse then you will need to manually migrate your apps, flows and connectors separately.

[@barnaliroy8703]

Great video! So, Dataverse license is mandatory to be able to use environment variables right?

[@DanielChristian19]

That is correct

[@sherylnetley]

Awesome video, so easy to follow! Thank you 😊

[@DanielChristian19]

You are so welcome!

[@ramisolipe7001]

Thanks for your videos , I am new with PowerApps , can you advise me which playlist I need to follow? thank in advance .

[@DanielChristian19]

Hey Rami, I recommend you start with the Power Apps App In A day workshop which is self-paced. Here is the link to download the content. aka.ms/appinaday. Then you can look at the existing templates and see how that works and follow all the examples available in the Power Apps User Community. Keep Power Apping!

[@JD-lx3cx]

Awesome! Thank you Daniel for sharing.

[@DanielChristian19]

My pleasure!

[@TheHanzelmans]

Is it possible to use an environment variable to store a color value? I've tried, but no luck. I'm sure that I'm just missing something.

[@DanielChristian19]

Ooooh that is an AWESOME! idea, Steve. Ummm...Power Apps requires only RGBA values and not HEX so this will be interesting. If and when I find a workaround I'll add this to my KZbin special vBlog and give you a big shout out!

[@jochemcode4570]

Thank you for an overview! I miss the information how to use this in ALM. Like using default / current values over two environments. Still a good video tho!

[@jochemcode4570]

Update: When you fill in a default value, and then export it to another environment, the UI doesn't give you the option to set a current value. So imo, it looks like you never should fill a default value

[@joshuamatias1990]

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[@213theroom]

Nice video. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

[@DanielChristian19]

Glad it was helpful!

[@NguyenBinh-jt6cr]

super easy to follow

[@DanielChristian19]

Glad to hear that!

[@oysterhoys]

Great stuff, thanx again. Strange that there is no integer type. With a lot of variables, there are a lot of lookups in the onstart. I tried to somehow, import the definitions or values as a collection, but no success yet.

[@DanielChristian19]

Interesting! I'll have to dig into that a little more and see if I can find something.

[@oysterhoys]

@@DanielChristian19 Oh great. Also a little surprised that every 'looked-up' variable turns into a string. With 10 vars I have a huge onStart including converting to boolean or integer in my canvas App. It works, but not pretty.