Salesforce Environment Variables

A simple library which uses Custom Metadata to manage simple Key/Value Environment variables. Includes a custom UI to make configuration as easy & error free as possible.

📦 Install

via sfdx-cli sfdx force:package:install --package 04t6O000001J2gsQAC -u your@org.user

via url login and navigate to /packaging/installPackage.apexp?p0=04t6O000001J2gsQAC. Choose Install for: Admin Only.

Upgrading

This project has been updated to a namespaced unlocked package. If you installed before the namespace was added, and want to stay up-to-sync with the latest improvements, then please follow the manual migration process!

🔨 Usage

1. Open Environment Variables from the app switcher (or "tabs" in classic)
2. Add and Save some env-vars
3. Use in Apex, Formulas or javascript applications.

Apex

//basic usage
Map<String,String> fieldMap = (Map<String,String>) VARS.ENV.get('MY_MAP');

//with a string transform
Map<String,String> fieldMap = (String[]) VARS.ENV.get('MY_ARRAY', VARS.ENV.Transform.TO_LOWER);

// with ANY json
Foo fieldMap = (Foo) VARS.ENV.get('MY_FOO', Foo.class);

Formula

$CustomMetadata.VARS__ENV__mdt.FIELD_MAP.Val__c

Note: Only the first 255 characters will be returned in formula!

✨Features

Currently supports the following types:

• String
• Integer
• Decimal
• Boolean: Format: true or false
• String[]: Format: ["a","b","c"]
• Map<String,String>: Format: {"456":"xyz","123":"abc"}
• ANY: Any valid JSON string

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"Type-checking" to prevent user input errors

• Simple type checking on primitive types.
• ability to apply JSON Schema to ANY json type!

"Secret" Values Support (Optional)

In order to enable, follow these instructions.

Quick Find

Quickly filter VARS based on either key or value string search.

Auto-formatting of JSON types

Automatically formats JSON after editing

Ability to group like "VARS" together

Ability to add Notes

Add information about how it's used, how to manage it, etc

🤝 Contributing/Modifying

Project Overview:

• env-vars: Salesforce metadata for core env-vars functionality
• app: React UI for managing env-vars. Uses B.A.S.S. Stack
• env-vars-encrypt: managed package to allow for "secret" vars
• sf-env-vars-npm: npm package to make using env-vars easy in js applications

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