Applies to Product - Power Apps
What’s happening?
Customers are experiencing issues where SharePoint lists in their Power Apps solutions are not correctly mapping to updated environment variables after deployment. Even after updating the environment variables to reference the UAT site lists, the solution continues to use references from the previous environment (e.g., Dev).
Reason:
This occurs because environment variables for SharePoint require matching metadata between environments. If a SharePoint list is recreated in the target environment with the same name and columns, the internal identifiers (logical names) may still differ. This mismatch causes the solution to retain references to the original environment.
Resolution:
- Ensure Metadata Consistency
Verify that the display name and logical name for each SharePoint column match exactly between the source and target environments. - Clear Environment Variable Values Before Export
In the source environment, remove the values from environment variables before exporting the solution. This ensures the values are not carried over during export. - Set Default Values to Blank
Set all environment variable default values to blank before exporting. This allows appropriate values to be selected during import into the target environment. - Verify SharePoint Site URL
Confirm that the environment variable storing the SharePoint site URL is correctly set to the UAT site URL in the target environment.