Standards

Environment Variable Standards

Naming, ownership, and deployment standards for Power Platform environment variables.

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Who this helps

Teams shipping solutions across dev, test, and production.

What to standardize

Use environment variables for values that change by environment.
Avoid hiding business rules in variables.
Document default and production values.
Review values during deployment checklists.

Examples

Environment variable register

Keep deployment values discoverable.

Formula / code

Name: bv_SupportMailbox
Type: Text
Dev value: powerplatform-dev@contoso.com
Prod value: powerplatform-support@contoso.com
Used by: Request notification flow
Owner: Platform team

Expected result: Deployments no longer depend on someone remembering which email address to change.

Common mistakes

Hardcoding tenant-specific values
Creating variables without ownership
Using unclear schema names