Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

If you are New or Beginner in Power Apps component framework , I recommend you to refer PCF beginner article first.

Coming back to the blog post, other day while importing a solution with a PCF component, solution import failed with following error

Publisher prefix XXXX for this control XX.XXXX does not match the prefix XXX for the solution with Id xxxx-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxx"

Reason:

To understand the issue better, lets reproduce the issue by building a simple pcf control by following steps below:

• Open Visual Studio Code and point to an empty folder.

• Open a Terminal and execute following command to create a Control by name ‘Helloworld’.

 pac pcf init -n HelloWorld -ns sample -t field -npm true

• Now build the control by running “npm run build” command.

• Now that we have control in built state, let me push the control to my development Dataverse environment.
• Execute “pac auth create –url https://myorg.crm.dynamics.com” to connect to Dataverse environment first.

• Then, push the control to the connected environment using “pac pcf push –publisher-prefix sample“ command.

• Above ‘pac pcf push‘ command creates a new unmanaged solution with naming convention “PowerAppsTools_{publisher_prefix}”.
  • In my case, a new solution “PowerAppsTools_sample” got created, as I mentioned the Publisher Prefix name as sample.

• So far we could build a new PCF control and pushed to the Dataverse instance.
• In my Development Dataverse environment, I already have a solution by name “MyCoreSolution” with Publisher ‘Rajeev’ having a prefix as ‘raj‘.

• Now I want to include the PCF control which we just built to my “MyCoreSolution” solution and deploy to another environment.
• So add the “HelloWorld” control to MyCoreSolution solution and export and save a zip file in your machine.

• Open the new Environment and try importing “MyCoreSolution” solution, which we exported in previous step.
• Import fails with following error

Solution "MyCoreSolution" failed to import: Import Solution Failed: CustomControls with Name sample.HelloWorld Import Solution Failed with following error: Publisher prefix sample for this control sample.HelloWorld does not match the prefix raj for the solution

Fix/Best Practice:

• Hope you got an idea with above example on what’s wrong with solution import.
• Because the PCF control prefix (i.e.,sample) is different than the “MyCoreSolution” solution’s Publisher prefix (i.e.,raj) we got the exception during import.
• To avoid such issues, make sure your PCF control prefix matches with your Solution’s Publisher prefix, while importing the control to a different Dataverse environment.

🙂