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When developing flows for Business Central there are (at least) two environment variables I would create; environment and company.
Both of these environment variables are created as I explained in this article, as text variables.
The environment one is quite straightforward where you can simply enter the BC environment name, such as sandbox or, as in my case, BCDEV:
The company variable is a little trickier, as it is not the name of the company which needs to be entered, but the GUID:
You can find the GUID for a company by opening the Companies page in Business Central, selecting the row containing the required company and launching the Page Inspector:
The value you want is in the Id field on the Company (2000000006) table.
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