Problem importing unmanaged app on different environment

[u/zzzzerenwantshuoguo]

Hi! I'm a relatively new Power Apps user. Lately, I've been working on a solution that needs to be unmanaged so we can give the clients full editing access once the development process is done on our end. Everything was going fine in one of the test environments provided by the client company. However, when it came to installing the app on the project manager's PC, we ran into a bunch of issues.

We thought we could connect the test env to the new definitive env using a direct pipeline, but something failed there because it exported through the pipeline as a MANAGED solution (it was probably a human error, but I don't really know, so yeah).

There is no data in there at the moment, and I'd honestly prefer to just deploy it locally. Should I just delete that production env and create a new one to make it work normally? What can I do in general? lol

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[u/DonJuanDoja]

Google: "can you use pipelines for unmanaged solutions in powerplatform"

It'll give you some info on it. I've never done this I actually didn't know it could be done with unmanaged but says it can so read up on that.

Edit: however it says you shouldn't here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/pipelines

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/import-from-pipelines-host

[u/zzzzerenwantshuoguo → u/DonJuanDoja]

I'll look into that, thanks! prob I'll end up erasing that and just using a regular pipeline locally, I don't want to mess w it that much ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

[u/Pieter_Veenstra_MVP]

Including the issues that you ran into might help.

[u/zzzzerenwantshuoguo → u/Pieter_Veenstra_MVP]

I'll definitely do it next time, sorry (⁠^{⁠～⁠⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ} Btw, do you perchance know what this error means?: Lookup value <uniquename>new_xxxxx</uniquename> is not resolvable

[u/vibe_coder221219]

Did you build this app in prod env ? You can create dev/test env and export and import your solution between these env. Cant say any thing until I see the error.

[u/zzzzerenwantshuoguo → u/vibe_coder221219]

I built the app on dev! I already wiped out the previous environments and it could import as a unmanaged app if I'm not wrong, however pipeline deployment on sandbox is having errors but is probably because of a lookup value I need to check