Question

How to fetch environment I am currently running on in Microflows?

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Hi, I wanted to add some different activities in Microflows on the basis of environment I am running my app on line is it test, acceptance or Prod. Is there any idea how can I retrieve this information in microflow?

asked 2021-01-05

Shilpa Jain

3 answers

Ivan Zub · Answer 1 · 2021-01-05

I think the preferred way here is to use constants (see the documentation here https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/constants). You can define a constant in your application, use it inside your microflows and re-assign it via deployment configuration on your environments.

Umar Shabbir · Answer 2 · 2021-01-05

Download Community Commons Functions Library from the app store and you can use “GetApplicationUrl “ function in it.
It will return your app url and I think adding decision on it you can do further actions based on where app is running.

You can also take a look at the Mendix Core Class in API. It can be used from a java action in a microflow.

Tim v Steenbergen · Answer 3 · 2021-01-05

The shortcut is using Umar's tip: "GetApplicationUrl”. To have some more control, I created a module for that about a year ago: Environment variables DTAP. Have a look, it might be helpful.