Manually Export and Import a Solution in Power Apps

[@ShubhamSharma-wl8ok]

Thank u so much dear, I'm going through a power apps training in my organization. Make some more like this

[@rafaelapinillos6]

Thank you for making this insightful video!

[@brajgopal108]

Beautiful and Informative video. Thank You Andrea.

[@faraidoonrawf556]

Thanks, this was really informative. Could you please make a complete short video series how to become expert in Power Apps from scratch. Although I am quite busy, I am really interested to learn and master at some point Power App development.

[@santoshkumar-sj6ef]

Thanks a lot. Your video is helpful for me to carry out my work on time.

[@kasiapolitalska]

Very useful video, thank you! One thing that you don't mention is the data. If the original solution contains tables with lookup data, how do we transfer those to the new environment? Is it a simple export to Excel and import on the other side? It would be useful to see that procedure as well. :)

[@andreapinillos]

Thanks, Kasia. Yes, you could do that or use dataflows. The export of the solution doesn’t bring over the data to the new environment.

[@benjaminlahsen6721]

Hello again Andrea. I encountered another challenge now. I would like to create a copy of a solution within the same enviorement. Is that possible?

[@lalasahebgaikwad1154]

Hi Andrea , I just want to know after successful import (unmanaged) solution to different dev environment , can we edit the imported app ? or we can just play that app. Please clarify this also in video. I hope you got it.

[@andreapinillos]

Hello! Thanks for your comment. If you import an unmanaged solution to another environment you will be able to edit that solution. If this is for dev purposes, that should be fine. If this is for a higher environment like testing or production, I don’t recommend editing an unmanaged solution in that environment.

[@mirzasadiquebaig5798]

Very Nice 👌 Thanks 😊

[@naresh6543]

Excellent explanation..tq

[@MilindPatel-v9l]

Can you please explain how can I migrate multiple applications from one env to another env with all dependencies?

[@andreapinillos]

You will need to place those applications and their dependencies into a solution to be able to export the solution with everything included.

[@ggg9gg]

Would it work if i want to export this solution to another user (another account), not just another environment in my own account

[@andreapinillos]

Yes it should! As long as you have all the dependencies in that solution.

[@busyshah]

I tried that, but I am stuck at an error which says that I will have to import a few global choices from the source environment to the destination environment before actually moving the solution. Have been researching a lot online, unfortunately to no avail. Would be helpful if anyone of the community can throw some light. Thanks in advance.

[@andreapinillos]

This sounds like a dependency issue. It appears that your solution needs you to add existing choice fields that you might be using in your form or views. In your solution go to add existing and add any existing choice fields you’re using.

[@busyshah]

@@andreapinillos Wow!, worked like a charm. Able to import into new environment. This is so helpful, specially when responded quickly. There are new issues related to managed services, but I think this is for me to research. Once again thanks a ton!

[@benjaminlahsen6721]

Great!!🎉

[@allthecommonsense]

2:17 - WHY?

[@sreeniv09]

Because QA is for testing and Prod is production ppl don't do development there.. So managed is enough

[@allthecommonsense]

@@sreeniv09 but that doesn’t tell me what “managed” means or does. What is the significance, value, or purpose of “managed”?

[@ankushjain4128]

1)Managed solution you can not make changes but unmanaged solution you can change connections . 2) Managed solution is more useful where we want no one can not make any change in app or flow like it acts as a locked or view mode and unlike unmanaged it is generally useful to develop or test your logic inside flow or app