Environment properties

Environment properties enable you to store account-wide recipe configuration parameters. Environment properties appear in all recipes as usable values as a child of the Properties datatree.

Environment-level properties are also known as environment variables or configuration variables. They are useful for complex deployment models across connections and recipes.

For example, you can have a property that indicates where to send a notification email. All recipes can look this value up from the data tree (properties section) and send an email to the same recipient.

The environment properties feature is enabled only for certain users. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn more.

You can create property values (name-value pairs) by using the sidebar on the left side of your screen and clicking Tools > Environment properties.

Environment properties in Tools

Limits

Your environment property limit depends on your account configuration. The following property limits apply by default:

• 200 for all projects within one environment.
• 100 for environment-level properties.

Contact your Customer Success Manager for more information about your environment property limits.

Create property

To use environment properties in recipes, you must create them in the Environment properties interface. A property is a name and its corresponding value.

Create property

Update property

To update a property, hover your mouse cursor over the property. Workato displays the icons to edit or delete an existing property.

ENVIRONMENT PROPERTY JOB EXECUTION BEHAVIOR

Jobs do not dynamically detect and update changes to environment property values. Environment property values are frozen at the beginning of job execution by design. You can use Lookup tables if you require dynamic detection for environment property values.

Updating or deleting an account property

Using properties in recipes

Environment properties appear in all recipes within the Workato account, under the Properties datatree. Their values correspond to the values defined in the Environment properties interface.

When a recipe is active, Workato looks up its value in the Environment properties interface.

Using properties in a recipe