Hello, I would like to post here my feedback regarding your env variables editor feature. - First of all it would be nice to have a toggle button which would reveal all variable values (remove "***" obfuscation), because this is currently not possible I am using the Raw editor to update my variables. - The raw editor is placed in a really really narrow modal which is so annoying for me because I have pretty long variable names and values which in this narrow modal are wrapped into multiple lines, which is really unreadable (It would be much better if the content would allow horizontal scrolling instead of wrapping lines. Because of that i am constantly coping all the ENV content from your modal and pasting into my text editor, doing all changes here and then I paste it back into your modal. - All of that would be okay if there wouldn't be the most annoying thing which is Variables order changes after updating. I have many variables, and I have sorted them in a way that is more readable for me but after saving all the variables in normal and raw editor are sorted in the other way (probably alphabetically) - The last thing I don't like is that variables change triggers deploy automatically. When I want to change few variables in the normal editor I have to click cancel redeploy after each change. It would be nice if there would be a switch which will disable automatic deployments. If you could fix those issues then the user experience of your platform will be much better.

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Better env variables management

Anonymous

4 years ago

Hello, I would like to post here my feedback regarding your env variables editor feature.

First of all it would be nice to have a toggle button which would reveal all variable values (remove "***" obfuscation), because this is currently not possible I am using the Raw editor to update my variables.
The raw editor is placed in a really really narrow modal which is so annoying for me because I have pretty long variable names and values which in this narrow modal are wrapped into multiple lines, which is really unreadable (It would be much better if the content would allow horizontal scrolling instead of wrapping lines. Because of that i am constantly coping all the ENV content from your modal and pasting into my text editor, doing all changes here and then I paste it back into your modal.
All of that would be okay if there wouldn't be the most annoying thing which is Variables order changes after updating. I have many variables, and I have sorted them in a way that is more readable for me but after saving all the variables in normal and raw editor are sorted in the other way (probably alphabetically)
The last thing I don't like is that variables change triggers deploy automatically. When I want to change few variables in the normal editor I have to click cancel redeploy after each change. It would be nice if there would be a switch which will disable automatic deployments.
If you could fix those issues then the user experience of your platform will be much better.

3 Replies

milo

MODERATOR

4 years ago

The first request isn’t a good idea as that could be bad for security. You can edit variables by clicking the three dots next to it, so you don’t have to use the raw editor.

Anonymous

4 years ago

The first request isn’t a good idea as that could be bad for security. You can edit variables by clicking the three dots next to it, so you don’t have to use the raw editor.

Milo: But you currently allow revealing a single variable, and revealing all in the raw editor… so it wont be any worse than these current options. Also if someone wants to reveal all values he should understand the risks, you could also introduce a confirmation popup like "Are you sure to reveal all variables and understand the risk?"

Anonymous

3 years ago

About the 1st point, I think revealing the values on cursor hovering might be nicer, like Render.com.