# Variables Management

On this page, you can add/edit/remove environment variables that are used by your application.

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### Add Environment Variable

Click **Add Variable** (1), enter variable name (2), variable value (3) and click **Add Variable** (4).

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After the environment variable is added, redeployment will be required for changes to be applied.

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You can also click **See Changes** to see what changes will be applied after deployment.

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### Edit Environment Variable

Click the **Three Dots** button to open the context menu (1), click the **Edit** button (2) to open the environment variable edit modal.

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Click **Edit value** and enter the new value of the variable.

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When finished editing the value, click **Save**.

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You will see changes in the **See Changes** modal as well as on the page itself by clicking **See Value** button.

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### Remove Environment Variable

Click on **Three Dots** (1) near the variable you want to remove then click on **Delete** button (2).

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In the opened modal, confirm that you want to delete a variable by clicking the **Yes, Delete** button.

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If the variable is new and has not been deployed yet, it will be removed **immediately**.

If the variable was already deployed, you will see in **See Changes** that it will be removed **after** deployment.

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## Raw Editor

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Inside the Raw Editor modal, you can copy all environment variables, add/edit/delete them in bulk. And view them in JSON.

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## Hyva Credentials

The Variables Management page also includes **Hyva Credentials** modal.

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Here you can enter the **Hyva License Key** and the **Hyva Composer Repository** directly. Portal will also perform a check to see if the provided license key has access to the Hyva theme.

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## Packagist

To install packages from Packagist, you need to provide `COMPOSER_AUTH` environment variable or have `auth.json` file in the repository. It is generally **recommended against** committing `auth.json` tointo the source code.

Instead, use `COMPOSER_AUTH` environment variable.

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