Cannot create new environment with templates

[gabrielesilvagni]

Hi I am trying to create a new environment which includes a template. Despite populating the "Templates" parameter, the result is a standard blank Dataverse environment.

I used the code below

  name: create-environment action
  uses: microsoft/powerplatform-actions/[email protected]
  id: create_environment
  with:
    user-name: ${{ github.event.inputs.admin_username }}
    password-secret: ${{ github.event.inputs.admin_password }}
    name: ${{ github.event.inputs.env_name }}
    region: ${{ github.event.inputs.env_region }}
    type: SubscriptionBasedTrial
    currency: ${{ github.event.inputs.env_currency }}
    language: ${{ github.event.inputs.env_language }}
    domain: ${{ github.event.inputs.env_domain }}
    templates: ${{ github.event.inputs.env_templates }}

This is the resulting output

Is it possible to specify a template? Am I missing something? The same parameter works on Power Shell Cmdlets. Thank you!

[davidjenni]

@gabrielesilvagni sorry for the delay in reply :-( investigating on our side; since you have not attached any error spew, I assume in your case, the action succeeded without showing errors or failures, but the resulting env is not configured with the template, correct?

[gabrielesilvagni]

Yes, you are correct. The operation succeeded but no template has been applied.

[davidjenni]

the create-environment actions simply hands the list of templates through to the EnvManagement API. If this reproes, we would need a more detailed log for us to have our partner team investigate. If such reproes are consistent, it will also reproduce when calling pac admin create ... --templates <templates>. The CLI does keep a local trace log that we'd need to investigate; it is placed in a subfolder logs/ next to the pac.exe's location

A local copy of pac CLI can be installed via our VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=microsoft-IsvExpTools.powerplatform-vscode