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tez4
4 months agoNew Contributor
Frustrations with .env File Handling and Environments in 1Password
To whom it may concern, I just tried to add some basic .env files to 1Password and was honestly surprised at how difficult and unsatisfying the experience was. I’ve always considered 1Password a pre...
floris_1P
1Password Team
4 months agoThanks tez4 for trying the Environments beta and providing feedback! Some functionality you mention is in fact already available (but apparently not easy enough to discover?):
Some values in these files are sensitive, and others aren’t, so we should be able to choose which fields are masked (as passwords) and which are shown normally
If you press Edit in an environment, you can toggle the eye icon to change whether the value should be masked or not.
Importing and exporting environment files should also be seamless, currently, it’s anything but
Importing can be done using the Import .env file button which brings up a dialog to select a local .env file to import. If you tried that out and think it's not seamless enough, could you describe what exactly went wrong or what you think could be improved?
Exporting is indeed not supported yet, but is coming soon.
What’s the point of having them at all if they can’t be shared?
If you click Manage environment > Manage access, you can invite users to collaborate in the environment. You can give them access to read, write or manage the environment.
Let me know if thats helps!