D365 CE | Preferred solution in Dataverse

Interesting concept that I recently came across is to "Set your Preferred Solution" in Dataverse.

By default if you do any unmanaged customizations in PowerApps Maker, are created under the default solution. The drawback is if I add a new field, instead of using the prefix for the solution that I have created, it would use the Common Data Service Default Solution prefix (i.e., new_ or cr_).

Microsoft has now provided an option to setup your preferred solution, so any customization you perform even outside your custom solution will automatically be added under your custom solution. To do so, we need to setup the custom solution as a Preferred Solution.

Here are the steps:

• When you login to PowerApps Maker, you can see there is an option to select the preferred solution.
• Click on Manage or click Set preferred solution.

• Select the solution from the dropdown or create a new solution.

• Once the preferred solution has been setup, you can test by going to the default solution and creating a new field or updating the character limit of an existing field. You will notice that the changes are automatically reflect in the preferred solution too.

Hope it helps!