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How to work with ENV when creating a template?

To publish templates, you need to know how to configure ENV so that the end user does not have to do extra work

In order to get a link to UI/Node-RED after downloading template, you need to write $service-name in value. For example, we have two services: marketingUI and marketingNR. For the UI, we need to get a link to Node-RED, so in ENV for User interface, add a new env with value $marketingNR

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After downloading the template, we get the following result

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Add a connection to MongoDB​

The database is used in Node-RED so we can dynamically create all ENVs to connect to MongoDB. For this, by analogy, as described above, need to add ENV $db-name

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As a result, we will receive in Node-RED a list of ENVs for connecting to MongoDB.

  • AIBOTDB-MONGO-HOST-NAME
  • AIBOTDB-MONGO-DB-NAME
  • AIBOTDB-MONGO-USER-NAME
  • AIBOTDB-MONGO-PASSWORD

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