Environment variables vs connection references in Power Platform
The article discusses the differences between environment variables and connection references in Power Platform. It emphasizes that both are essential for ensuring managed solutions can be imported into various environments without manual adjustments. The author outlines best practices for using each type effectively to avoid deployment issues.
- ▪Environment variables and connection references serve to facilitate the import of managed solutions across different environments without developer intervention.
- ▪Connection references are pointers to authenticated connections, while environment variables are typed values used at runtime by solution-aware code.
- ▪The article provides guidance on how to manage deployment-settings to ensure that both connection references and environment variables are correctly configured during imports.
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