How to Enable the Preferred Solution (Preview feature) in Dataverse?

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By default, all the changes that Makers make in an unmanaged solution will be stored in the solution named Common Data Services Default Solution / Default Solution. In general, the best approach is to create a New Solution and Make the changes to an existing component or create some components after creating a solution with the required publisher.

Using this Preferred solution (Preview feature), whatever components that Makers create outside of any solution can be moved automatically to the required Preferred solution, and this preferred solution can be exported and imported to other Microsoft Dataverse environments.

This article will explain the step-by-step process to enable this Preferred Solution feature.

Pre-Requisites

Click on the below article link and create a Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome Profile.
Create a Profile in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome
Click on the below article link to create a Power Apps Trial for 30 days, or if you already have a Powers Apps Tenant, skip this step.
Create Microsoft Power Apps 30 days Online Trial Version.

Follow the below steps after the Pre-Requisites.

Step 1. Open Power Platform Admin Center.

https://aka.ms/ppac

https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/

Admin center

Step 2. Click on Environments.

Click on Environments

Step 3 Click on the required environment.

Required environments

Step 4. Click on Settings.

Setting

Step 5. Expand the Product and Click on Features.

Features

Step 6. Search for the Preferred solution (Preview) and click on it to Turn it On.

Preview

Step 7. Click on Save.

Save

Once it is saved, you can see the Save button is disabled.

Step 8. Open Power Apps Maker Portal.

Click on this link to get the URL for the Power Apps Maker Portal.

App maker portal

Step 9. Choose the required Environment.

Choose required environment

Step 10. Click on Solutions, and you can see a new feature to set the preferred solution.

Note. By default, all the components that we create or update go to the Common Data Services Default Solution.

Common data service

Step 11. Click on Manage to change the solution.

Manage

Step 12. Click on New Solution or Choose the required Solution from the Drop Down.

New solution

I have selected the required solution.

Required solution

Step 13. Click on Apply.

Apply

The preferred solution has been updated now to my required solution.

Set solution

Step 14. To test this feature, will directly go to our favorite Default Solution and try to update the Account Name character count from 160 to 200 and Save it.

Save

Step 15. Open the Preferred Solution and check for your changes, and it worked like a charm.

Display name

I hope you have successfully configured and tested this new preferred solution feature.

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