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.

Go to Tools > Environment properties to create property values (name-value pairs).

Environment properties in Tools

Limits

Environment properties have the following limitations:

• The maximum number of environment properties is 1000 per workspace.
• Property names have a maximum length of 100 characters.
• Property values have a maximum length of 1024 characters.

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