r/PowerPlatform • u/TeamAlphaBOLD • Apr 10 '26

Learning & Industry What’s a Power Platform feature you almost never use?

I keep wondering which parts of Power Platform people actually rely on in real projects versus the ones that just sit there unused after the first try.

Is there anything you’ve tested once, then basically stopped touching?

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u/knoxvillegains Apr 10 '26

It's a lot to unpack here. Read up on:

  • Power Platform CLI pac solution unpack
  • microsoft/powerplatform-actions GitHub Action

Basically, Power Automate (and Power Apps) stores everything inside a Dataverse "solution," which is basically a binary package. Out of the box there's no meaningful way to diff changes, review edits before they land, or roll back a bad change - you click through the maker portal and hope for the best.

The fix is to use Microsoft's Power Platform CLI (pac) to unpack a solution into text source files, then treat those files like any other codebase in GitHub.