a way to store environment variable for custom package

- If the instance is hosted in the cloud one way of doing it would be ask Sugar if they can set the variabel in the config. 

- We used the connector part for it in the past. So we created a 'dummy' connector where we can set the settings we need

- now we use our own configuration module that stores the settings in the configuration for us. Since its a normal module we can change the settings in the ui and hit 'store in config'

- Last but not least you could use the api /Administration/config/:category  to set a config variable in the database that you read in your packag when you want. 

- If the instance is hosted in the cloud one way of doing it would be ask Sugar if they can set the variabel in the config. 

- We used the connector part for it in the past. So we created a 'dummy' connector where we can set the settings we need

- now we use our own configuration module that stores the settings in the configuration for us. Since its a normal module we can change the settings in the ui and hit 'store in config'

- Last but not least you could use the api /Administration/config/:category  to set a config variable in the database that you read in your packag when you want. 

Thank you very much, Jeroen!

One more question please, Jeroen:

is it safe to write directly my KEY directly in the custom package?

and which table in the database /Administration/config/:category  is refers to,please?

I haven't seen it stated here but you can also access the config table in sidecar if the category is a module name.

var config = app.metadata.getModule('Accounts', 'config');
if(!_.isEmpty(config.ns_url)) {
    url = config.ns_url;
}

Note that you need to repair and rebuild for the client to get new values added to the config table.