Cannot Publish Function App From Visual Studio

Ryan Ruenroeng 30

Hi there, I don't understand why I'm unable to create a Function App using the Visual Studio wizard: User's image

The documentation didn't at first tell me that I needed to add resource providers to my subscription in order for my Function App to be able to have Azure Storage and whatever services Microsoft.Web is providing. I'm not hitting this wall, but without any kind of error message to explain to me why I cannot create this app. Best, Ryan

Konstantinos Passadis 19,166 Reputation points MVP

2023-04-18T21:49:48.62+00:00

Hello @Anonymous ! Welcome to Microsoft QnA! Can you try to add a new Application Insights resource as well ? Please post the results in order to help you in case it did not created the Function In case this helped kindly mark the answer as Accepted! BR
VenkateshDodda-MSFT 20,781 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-04-19T07:05:35.7466667+00:00
@Ryan Ruenroeng Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A, apologize for any inconvenience caused on this.

If you are following this documentation to create the function app using visual studio in the prerequisites it clearly mentioned that you need to have storage account in the subscription.

In the above shared image, it looks like the create option is greyed out this might happen if you don't have the enough permissions to create the functions app in that particular subscription.

Could you please confirm are you the owner/contributor access on the subscription? if yes still facing issue, I would suggest you try logging out and re-login to your subscription and check.

Feel free to reach back to me if you have any further questions on this.
Ryan Ruenroeng 30 Reputation points

2023-04-19T14:47:39.81+00:00

Hi Venkatesh,

I was following this documentation, which does not clearly call out that you need to have a storage account in the subscription. I setup the prerequisites that were stated, but have been running into issues getting things set up further.

What permissions do I need to be able to create functions app in the above subscription?

I am not a contributor to this subscription and need to ask for permissions from others at my company. I was made a contributor to the resource group I'm using within that subscription. Would that not allot me the permissions necessary?

I can generate Azure Functions from within the Microsoft Portal. I cannot publish functions I've generated in VS to this resource group.
Ryan Ruenroeng 30 Reputation points

2023-04-19T14:50:45.13+00:00

@Konstantinos Passadis I cannot add an Applications Insights resource to this subscription at this time.
Ryan Ruenroeng 30 Reputation points

2023-04-19T16:39:44.4466667+00:00

Hi , I asked for elevated permissions and now am a contributor to my subscription. I still run into the same issues using Visual Studio.
Mike Williams 221 Reputation points

2023-04-27T12:44:08.6333333+00:00

I too have just encountered the same issue with the create button greyed out.

My fix was to go to the azure portal and create the function manually, then link up to it when creating a publish profile.

Hope this helps at least one person...

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VenkateshDodda-MSFT 20,781 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-04-20T07:09:48.6+00:00
@Ryan Ruenroeng Thanks for your follow-up questions on this.

I have tried to reproduce the same behavior in my own subscription by creating a user with Reader permission at subscription level and Contributor permission at Resource group level when we tried to deploy the function app from visual studio the Create option in publish profile is greyed out.

If you have Contributor permission at Resource group level, and if you want to create a function app (irrespective of SKU like consumption, elastic premium or dedicated app service plan) you need to have the permissions Webplan contributor and also Storage Account contributor` along with Contributor access on resource group.

Since you have the contributor access at resource group level, you can ignore the Reader permission to that specific user at subscription level.

If you have Contributor permission at subscription level, you can create the function app directly.

If you want to limit the specific user to create a function app at subscription level or at resource group level you can limit the permissions by creating a custom role including permissions (Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/Write,Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/Write etc.,) by referring to the Resource Provider Operations Documentation

Regarding the documentation change I would request you to raise a feedback request on the same documentation by click the feedback this page option at the bottom of the documentation as shown below

Feel free to reach back to me if you have any further questions on this.
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Ryan Ruenroeng 30 Reputation points

2023-04-20T13:21:33.87+00:00

Thanks @VenkateshDodda-MSFT ! I appreciate the detailed response. The workaround I wound up doing yesterday with a coworker was to build out all of the underlying infrastructure using Terraform.

I may revisit this though, because it would be nice to communicate steps how future folks trying to implement durable functions in their projects can publish them from VS. I will definitely provide that feedback on the document.

VenkateshDodda-MSFT 20,781 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-04-20T13:37:23.6+00:00

@Ryan Ruenroeng Thanks for your response. I hope the answer helps. Please let me know if you have any further queries.

Please accept as Yes if the answer provided is useful , so that you can help others in the community looking for remediation for similar issues.
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Ken Duoba 0 Reputation points

2024-08-06T22:59:28.69+00:00

I've had a similar issues when using the publishing wizard in VS. In my case, I just had to create the resource group manually via the Azure Portal beforehand rather than using the "New..." option. It did manage to create a new the storage account though. Looks a lot like a bug in the Wizard to me...
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