Improve component performance, stability and reliability with solution checker

To deliver on complex business requirements, makers often can end up with highly advanced solutions that customize and extend the Microsoft Dataverse platform. With advanced implementations come an increased risk where performance, stability, and reliability issues become introduced, which can negatively impact the user experience. Identifying and understanding how to resolve these issues can be complicated and time consuming. With the solution checker feature, you can perform a rich static analysis check on your solutions against a set of best practice rules and quickly identify these problematic patterns. After the check completes, you receive a detailed report that lists the issues identified, the components and code affected, and links to documentation that describes how to resolve each issue.

The solution checker analyzes these solution components:

• Dataverse custom workflow activities
• Dataverse web resources (HTML and JavaScript)
• Dataverse configurations, such as SDK message steps
• Power Automate flows (via flow checker)
• Power Fx expressions (via app checker)

Solution checker works with unmanaged solutions that can be exported from an environment.

Run the solution checker

1. Sign in to Power Apps.

2. In the left pane, select Solutions. If the item isn’t in the side panel pane, select …More and then select the item you want.

3. Next to the unmanaged solution that you want to analyze, select ..., point to Solution checker, and then select Run.

   

4. The Solution checker command button has a loading indicator, and you'll notice a Running… state in the Solution check column of the Solution list.

   

   Note the following:

   • The solution checker can take a few minutes to complete the analysis.

   • You'll receive an email notification and a notification in the Notifications area of the Power Apps site when the check is completed.

5. View the report when the check is completed.

Cancel a check

After you submit a solutions check in your environment, the check can be canceled through the status pane on the upper right area of the Solutions page.

When you cancel a check, the solution check stops running and the solution check status returns to the previous state.

Solution checker states

When you install the solution checker in your environment, the Solution check column becomes available in the Solutions list. This column displays the solution analysis states for a solution.

Review the solution checker report

When a solution check is completed, you can view the analysis report in the portal, or you can download the report from your web browser. In the portal, you have options to sort results by Issue, Location or by Severity and view detailed information for issues detected in your solution.

1. In the left pane, select Solutions. If the item isn’t in the side panel pane, select …More and then select the item you want.

2. Next to the unmanaged solution where you want to view the solution checker report, select ..., point to Solution checker, and then select View results.

3. Select an issue to view the details and guidance on how to resolve.

   

The solution check results are also available for download. The solution checker zip file is downloaded to the folder specified by your web browser. The download report is in Excel format and contains several visualizations and columns that assist you in identifying the impact, type, and location of each issue detected in your solution. A link to detailed guidance about how to resolve the issue is also provided.

1. In the left pane, select Solutions. If the item isn’t in the side panel pane, select …More and then select the item you want.
2. Next to the unmanaged solution where you want to download the solution checker report, select ..., point to Solution checker, and then select Download results.
3. The solution checker zip file is downloaded to the folder specified by your web browser.

Here's a summary of each column in the report.

Run solution checker rules locally

You can run solution checker rules in your development environment to detect issues much sooner as you create your solution resources. This is currently supported for web resources (JavaScript and TypeScript). For more details, go to the NPM package @microsoft/eslint-plugin-power-apps.

Best practice rules used by solution checker

The following table lists the component type, rule description, severity, and category. Critical violations are blocked or warned when configured for solution checker enforcement with managed environments. More information: Use solution checker in Managed Environments

See also

Best practices and guidance for the Dataverse
Best practices and guidance for model-driven apps
Common issues and resolutions for Solution Checker