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tez4
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11 months ago

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...
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floris_1P
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11 months ago

Thanks 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!

 

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wendo
New Contributor
19 days ago

Thank you. A few simple things would make a world of difference:
1. Exporting (to file or clipboard)
2. Description column (often env files have a # comment preceding the KV; or in a large env file, its just handy to have a descriptor field)
3. Reordering (this would make it so much easier to parse)
4. Duplicate an environment (super helpful when you are doing a large refactor and want to test with new KVs)
5. Copy/paste a single KV

This is just quality of life stuff that would really make it less painful to use.