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

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

1. Click on the below article link and create a Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome Profile.
   Create a Profile in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome
2. 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

Or

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

Step 2. Click on Environments.

Step 3 Click on the required environment.

Step 4. Click on Settings.

Step 5. Expand the Product and Click on Features.

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

Step 7. Click on 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.

Step 9. Choose the 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.

Step 11. Click on Manage to change the solution.

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

I have selected the required solution.

Step 13. Click on Apply.

The preferred solution has been updated now to my required 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.

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

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

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