Enabling Environment Selection for Viewer Roles in Retool Business Plan

[RicardoGomez]

Hello! I have the business plan on Retool and I've noticed that accounts with the "viewer" role cannot select the environment they wish to work in.

Additionally, I've been researching on the forum and found out that there is a possibility to activate this option for my organization, which is essential for me, as I need the "viewers" to be able to access the appropriate environment to work in.

[MiguelOrtiz]

Hi there @RicardoGomez,

I don't think there is a way for users with "viewer" role to select the environment. I'm assuming you read the two posts below, but just linking them in case you didn't

Include environment in URL automatically?

Hey @SES_jyorke! Unfortunately it's not possible to force urls to have the _environment url parameter, especially when they are being copied and sent from user to user. This can be set in an app with the Go to url action, and the apps should default to the last environment the user was in.

Launch app with Dev environment by default

My app has 2 environments, production and Dev. I want to launch the app with "Dev" environment when i open it, there are other users who use the app would only need the Dev version. I have used URL parameter in App settings. [image] This is actually url hash while the url should be a URL param ?_environment=Dev . Since above did not help, manually going to this URL https://myapp.retool.com/98sdhj/myapp?_environment=Dev opens the app in Dev env. Another thing i've tried: [image] If anyone…

I think maybe adding a select component with all of your environments and each one configured with an open app event and adding the URL parameter for each?

[RicardoGomez]

Dear Miguel Ortiz,

I have noticed some posts on the forum mentioning the possibility of switching environments. I appreciate the solution you have provided, and I have already implemented it; however, I do not believe it is the most appropriate practice. Since we are constantly developing applications, it is not practical to add a selection component to each one. Working with a considerable volume of applications would make this process tedious.

Here's a link to a post where they solve a problem similar to mine.

Viewers can't access multiple environments

I'm basically re-posting this person's post: Viewers on our account don't have access to the environment switcher, and admins don't have access to the displayed Beta flag to enable that feature. I sent an email to support@retool.com asking about this and received back an email containing nothing other than a "rate your conversation" widget.