Easy access to secure Environment Variables

[chumleesockson]

Hi all,

I'm loving Code Apps. They're awesome.

How are we expected to utilise environment variables? We can't use a dot env file, and if we use the environment variables in Dataverse then we need to query them from Dataverse and also give the logged in user read access to them, which is obviously not ideal.

This issue arose for me when looking into displaying full images from Dataverse, which might be a separate issue. In order to display full images from Dataverse, my understanding is that you need to use the Dataverse Web API, but that org URL will of course change when the app is deployed, so it needs an environment variable.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/image-column-data?tabs=webapi#url-to-download-full-sized-image