Unable to change environment

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  • Goal: Change environments when the application does not use a resource

  • Steps: No steps needed to debug. The warning and user interface actions being blocked seem to be unnecessary.

  • Details: When a resource isn't in use within the application, I am unable to switch my environments. See the warning in the below image.

I am unsure why this limitation is in place, as I can access any environment configuration variable in any JavaScript query. A work around I have added in is by placing a dummy query that does nothing but link to a resource that has been configured (see the below image). This allows me to switch environment as needed.

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  • App json export: This doesn't require an application to be exported to be replicated.
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I'm curious why you need to switch environment when there is no resource? Is it because your app only use JS queries?

A work around I have added in is by placing a dummy query that does nothing but link to a resource that has been configured (see the below image)

Yeah this sounds like a reasonable workaround.

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For my scenario, I'm using a HTTP client package from NPM to talk to a WideSky database. The client package is far more convenient to create HTTP requests, with other additional developer conveniences included, rather than manually creating POST/GET/PUT requests.

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I see. Thank you. I think the workaround is reasonable for now. I'll file a task so that our engineer can fix this issue for the long term.

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