Allow users to specify when to apply Environment Variables
A good feature would be to have some setting that lets you declare when you should apply environment variables. Since right now it is applied automatically during manual deployments and CI deployments. Perhaps in the wizard when you configure deployments there should be some option there to declare if environment variables should be applied or not?
We have some Custom Metadata and Custom Settings that always need to be updated post-refresh based on the new sandbox instances and it would be useful to use environment variables to set these values and deploy them one-time without them being deployed in every manual and CI job.
Nanners Lamet
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Environment variables will only be applied if its configuration as specified by the user (metadata type, item name, and a field for some types) matches the type and item name in the deployment package.
In all other cases, environment variables won't apply.
Added clarification in the Environment Variables config page:
"Environment variables will be applied automatically during both manual deployments and continuous integration deployments if the metadata item is included in the deployment package."