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Grouping Environment variable will help us mangethe Environment variable.

Sankar_GaneshKo
Level 4
BP Tool improvement/Suggestion Environment Variable Grouping. Environment variable grouping will help us to mange the environment variable. because one BP Db server we are managing many process.  It would be great, If we have option to group and filter Environment variable.  For us current 5 process has lot of environment variables. It's really hard to mange by Release manger.  sometime wrongly update the environment variable values. Its about my thoughts.  
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RonAng
Level 5
Agree. But for organization purposes. You can implement a standardization of naming these Environment variables. For example PRC1_URL (process 1 url), PR2_email (process 2 e-mail). Just a suggestion.

John__Carter
Staff
Staff
Good idea...watch this space. For now, naming conventions are the best way to go.

Sankar_GaneshKo
Level 4
We are following the naming standards. Prefix with Process related name. but if you have more process. Grouping or filter will be the best way to help us the Environment variable in better manner. Assume. If have around 50 Process in BP DB server.  We can filter out from DB side. like the below way.  select * from BPAEnvironmentVar where name like 'AFS%'   It would  be great, if the filter are available from application side .

SudheerReddy
Level 4
We do have 5 processes for the same customer. Although we have naming conventions, still it's a time consuming process to identify the correct environment variables & there is a high chance of including wrong environment variables. It would be great, if grouping is available.

Neel1
MVP
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John__Carter
Staff
Staff
It's coming soon

YinanSong1
Level 2
The naming convention can solve part of this issue.  the column of the environment variable name is a bit short which while opening you would see a lot of them starting with same 'name'.  In addition to the grouping solution, I do like to recommend that the value of environment variables should be fully shown which give a lot of easier view for our control.    Currently, we have 8-9 processes using around 60 environment variables. Sometimes, it's a bit of pain.