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Assign Offline Profile skill

Use when the user needs to bind users or teams to a Mobile Offline Profile so they actually receive offline sync on their devices. Without this, the profile exists in Dataverse but no one's app uses it.

$npx skills add microsoft/power-platform-skills --skill assign-offline-profile
View this skill on GitHubmicrosoft/power-platform-skills/plugins/mobile-apps/skills/assign-offline-profile/SKILL.md
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Assign Offline Profile

Install Assign Offline Profile

Pick your agent. Every command is ready to paste.

$npx skills add microsoft/power-platform-skills --skill assign-offline-profile

The open skills CLI detects your agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 70+ more) and installs to the right folder. Add -g to install globally.

01

Install it

Run the command above, or upload the folder in Claude.

02

Ask naturally

Describe the task. Your agent loads assign-offline-profile when the request matches its description.

03

Name it if needed

If it does not trigger, say “use the assign-offline-profile skill”. In Codex, type $assign-offline-profile.

The skill itself

SKILL.md

FolderGitHub

Shared instructions: shared-instructions.md — read first.

References:

Assign Offline Profile

Bind one or more users and/or teams to an existing Mobile Offline Profile. Without this step, the profile exists in Dataverse but is unbound — no one's app actually uses it for offline sync.

Per the maker portal's UX (the "Assign profile to user" dialog under env settings), this is a separate operation from profile creation. Many users hit "I created the profile but offline still doesn't work" — the missing piece is membership.

Before project reads or commands, apply app-working-directory.md. Resolve one absolute working_dir for a direct call or require the child invocation's owner root. Keep every shell/file operation, referenced recipe, and retry on that root and the selected environment/tenant; missing or conflicting context is NEEDS_CONTEXT. File tools use <working_dir>/.... Planning-phase calls may discover and propose the membership diff but must return before the confirmation gate, POST/DELETE, or artifact updates.

Workflow

  1. Verify project + locate profile → 2. Pick users/teams → 3. Discover existing memberships → 4. Confirm diff (single gate) → 5. POST memberships → 6. Verify → 7. Summary

Step 1 — Verify project + locate profile

cd -- '<working_dir>' || { echo "BLOCKED: cannot enter working_dir" >&2; exit 1; }
environment_id=$(node -p "require('./power.config.json').environmentId || ''") || {
  echo "BLOCKED: unreadable power.config.json" >&2; exit 1;
}
if [ -z "$environment_id" ]; then
  echo "NEEDS_CONTEXT: selected app has no environmentId" >&2; exit 1;
fi
node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/resolve-environment.js" "$environment_id" --no-cache --require-tenant

Capture <envUrl> and <tenantId> and require them to match any supplied owner identity. Pass --tenant-id "<tenantId>" on every Dataverse request, including profile lookup, WhoAmI, membership discovery, mutation, readback, and retries.

Profile ID resolution (in order):

Source Used when
$ARGUMENTS contains --profile-id <guid> Explicit override
$ARGUMENTS contains --profile-name <name> Resolve via GET /mobileofflineprofiles?$filter=name eq '<name>'&$select=mobileofflineprofileid
<working_dir>/offline-profile.json Read top-level profileId field
Otherwise GET /mobileofflineprofiles and present AskUserQuestion with the list (max 4 options)

STOP if no profile can be resolved. Print: Run /setup-offline-profile first, or pass --profile-id.

power.config.json is intentionally NOT consulted here. That file is owned by pa app init. The profile ID lives in offline-profile.json only.

Step 2 — Pick users/teams

$ARGUMENTS parsing:

Flag Effect
--user <upn> (repeatable) Add specific user(s) by UPN (user@domain.com)
--team <name> (repeatable) Add specific team(s) by name
--me Add the current Dataverse user from WhoAmI / systemusers(<UserId>) — useful for solo dev demos
--all-app-users Add every user with System User role in the current env (broad; intended for prod rollout — confirm at gate)
--unassign-user <upn> / --unassign-team <name> Remove an existing membership rather than add

If no flags passed, present AskUserQuestion:

Question: "Who should receive this offline profile?"

Options (max 4):

  • Just me (the current user) — equivalent to --me
  • Pick specific users by UPN — you reply with comma-separated emails in the next message
  • Pick a team — list env's teams and pick one
  • All users with System User role — equivalent to --all-app-users; broad scope, confirm at gate

For pick-users flow: after the choice, print:

"Reply with comma-separated UPNs (e.g. rm1@contoso.com, rm2@contoso.com)"

Then read the next user message and parse.

Step 3 — Discover existing memberships

Telemetry checkpoint: discover_offline_profile_memberships

For idempotency:

cd -- '<working_dir>' || { echo "BLOCKED: cannot enter working_dir" >&2; exit 1; }
# Existing user memberships for this profile
node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dataverse-request.js" <envUrl> GET \
  "usermobileofflineprofilememberships?\$filter=_mobileofflineprofileid_value eq <profileId>&\$select=usermobileofflineprofilemembershipid,_systemuserid_value&\$expand=systemuserid_systemuser(\$select=domainname)" \
  --tenant-id "<tenantId>"

# Existing team memberships for this profile
node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dataverse-request.js" <envUrl> GET \
  "teammobileofflineprofilememberships?\$filter=_mobileofflineprofileid_value eq <profileId>&\$select=teammobileofflineprofilemembershipid,_teamid_value&\$expand=teamid_team(\$select=name)" \
  --tenant-id "<tenantId>"

Build the set of already-bound UPNs and team names.

For each candidate user/team from Step 2, look up their systemuserid / teamid (skip if already in already-bound):

cd -- '<working_dir>' || { echo "BLOCKED: cannot enter working_dir" >&2; exit 1; }
node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dataverse-request.js" <envUrl> GET \
  "systemusers?\$filter=domainname eq '<upn>'&\$select=systemuserid,fullname,domainname&\$top=1" \
  --tenant-id "<tenantId>"

node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dataverse-request.js" <envUrl> GET \
  "teams?\$filter=name eq '<team-name>' and teamtype eq 0&\$select=teamid,name&\$top=1" --tenant-id "<tenantId>"

(teamtype eq 0 excludes Access Teams and Owner Teams — only Manage Teams get profile assignments.)

Construct three lists:

  • to_add — resolved IDs to POST
  • to_remove — resolved IDs to DELETE (from --unassign-* flags)
  • not_found — UPNs/team-names that didn't resolve (warn)
  • already_bound — skipped no-ops

Step 4 — Confirm diff (single gate)

Telemetry checkpoint: confirm_offline_profile_assignment_diff

AskUserQuestion:

Question header: Confirm membership changes

Question body:

Profile: <name> (<profileId>)

Will ADD:
  - User: rahul@contoso.com (Rahul Bansal)
  - User: charanma@... (Charan Mahankali)
  - Team: Field Service RMs (12 members)

Will REMOVE:
  (none)

Already bound (skipping):
  - User: admin@... (no-op)

Could not resolve:
  - someone@external.com — not in this env's system users

Proceed?

Options:

  • Proceed
  • Cancel

Step 5 — POST memberships

Telemetry checkpoint: assign_offline_profile_memberships

For each in to_add, POST sequentially (parallel POSTs occasionally return 429):

User membership:

cd -- '<working_dir>' || { echo "BLOCKED: cannot enter working_dir" >&2; exit 1; }
node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dataverse-request.js" <envUrl> POST \
  "usermobileofflineprofilememberships" \
  --tenant-id "<tenantId>" \
  --body '{
    "MobileOfflineProfileId@odata.bind": "/mobileofflineprofiles(<profileId>)",
    "SystemUserId@odata.bind": "/systemusers(<systemuserid>)"
  }' \
  --include-headers

Expected 204 with OData-EntityId → capture membership GUID.

Team membership:

cd -- '<working_dir>' || { echo "BLOCKED: cannot enter working_dir" >&2; exit 1; }
node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dataverse-request.js" <envUrl> POST \
  "teammobileofflineprofilememberships" \
  --tenant-id "<tenantId>" \
  --body '{
    "MobileOfflineProfileId@odata.bind": "/mobileofflineprofiles(<profileId>)",
    "TeamId@odata.bind": "/teams(<teamid>)"
  }' \
  --include-headers

For each in to_remove, DELETE:

cd -- '<working_dir>' || { echo "BLOCKED: cannot enter working_dir" >&2; exit 1; }
node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dataverse-request.js" <envUrl> DELETE \
  "usermobileofflineprofilememberships(<membershipid>)" --tenant-id "<tenantId>"

⚠️ Duplicate handling: POSTing a membership that already exists returns 409 Conflict. The dataverse-request.js wrapper's looksLikeDuplicate rescue treats this as silent success (the Step 3 dedup should catch most cases first). Re-runs are safe.

Step 6 — Verify

Telemetry checkpoint: verify_offline_profile_memberships

Re-query memberships from Step 3 and assert the diff applied:

  • Every to_add now appears in the GET response
  • Every to_remove no longer appears

If the verification disagrees, return BLOCKED: membership writes did not commit and print the discrepancy.

Step 7 — Summary

Print:

✓ Membership updates applied.

  Profile      : <name>
  Total members: <N users + M teams>
  Added        : <list>
  Removed      : <list>
  Skipped      : <list> (already bound)

Users will receive the profile on their next mobile app sign-in. Existing
sessions need to sign out + sign in to trigger the profile pull.

Update memory-bank.md ## Offline profile block:

membership:
  users: [rahul@..., charanma@...]
  teams: [Field Service RMs]
  lastAssignedAt: 2026-05-19T...

Status code (final line)

  • DONE — every requested add/remove applied; verify confirmed
  • DONE_WITH_CONCERNS: <list> — some UPNs/teams could not be resolved, or --all-app-users matched 0 users (env may not have the role granted yet)
  • NEEDS_CONTEXT: <missing> — couldn't determine profileId (no offline-profile.json, no --profile flags, no profiles in env)
  • BLOCKED: <reason> — auth failure, profile not found in env, or verification disagreement

Failure recovery

Memberships are individually committed (no transaction). If Step 5 fails mid-loop:

  • Partially-added memberships remain (visible in env)
  • Re-running with the same arguments is idempotent (Step 3 dedup catches what's already bound)
  • Use --unassign-* to undo specific bindings if needed

Tips for Assign Offline Profile

  • • Start a fresh session after installing so your agent picks up the new skill.
  • • It is part of a pack with 24 skills. Install only the ones you need with --skill to keep triggers precise.
  • • If two skills overlap, mention the one you want by name.

Questions about Assign Offline Profile

What does the Assign Offline Profile skill do?

Use when the user needs to bind users or teams to a Mobile Offline Profile so they actually receive offline sync on their devices. Without this, the profile exists in Dataverse but no one's app uses it.

How do I install Assign Offline Profile?

Run "npx skills add microsoft/power-platform-skills --skill assign-offline-profile" in your project. The skills CLI installs it for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 70+ other agents. In Claude on the web, upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Customize > Skills.

Does Assign Offline Profile work in Cursor and Codex?

Yes. Assign Offline Profile uses the open SKILL.md format, so it works in Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and other agents that support agent skills.

Is Assign Offline Profile free?

Assign Offline Profile is open source on GitHub under the MIT license. It is free to install; check the license before commercial use.

Who made Assign Offline Profile?

Assign Offline Profile is published by Microsoft in the microsoft/power-platform-skills repository, together with 23 other skills.

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