Linking externally to a canvas app without using the appId

[bfausti]

We embed our canvas apps in iframes within our website in various ways and use the web link to do this.

However, we also copy environments from production to a sandbox for testing purposes with externals. When you do this new appIds are created in the sandbox environment and thus requires us to update all web links throughout our site where we use them.

This is fustrating and time consuming. Is there another way we can link to these canvas apps without using the appId, for instance the app name for example?