Restrict user to staging environment only (no production access)

[Jen]

Hi @leman - welcome back to the Community !

If you are on the Business or Enterprise plan, you can configure resource environment permissions (doc here), but unfortunately we do not have permission settings available for app environments at the moment.

In the meantime, here are a few workaround suggestions that might be helpful:

• In Settings > Beta, you can enable the "Viewer Environments Toggle" setting so that your users with Use permission can toggle to the Staging environment from the bottom-left menu.

• On the Business or Enterprise plan, you can restrict user permissions such that they can only run queries against Staging data.

• You can append ?_environment=staging to a URL, but users would be able to change it, so it’s not a good access control mechanism.

• Below is another workaround that was posted:

Limit Environments for App

Hi @jeevenugo, In Retool Cloud, there is currently no built-in way to restrict an individual app to a specific environment (like development or production). However, you can achieve similar behavior with the following workarounds: Use Environment-based Resource Switching In each Retool environment (Development, Staging, Production), you can configure your resources (e.g., your Postgres database, APIs) to point to different targets. Then, within your app reference the resource by name (e.g.…

These suggestions do not completely restrict visibility and access to the prod environment, so I just put your +1 to our internal feature request and will let you know if there are any updates!

Hope this helps!

-Jen