Config section for Forge App

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Hi Team
I am building an app for Jira using Forge where i am invoking Atlassian Org API to get the Users Last Activity Date.
however I have to pass the Org API token as a auth header to access the API. I want to create a confige page with a field in Manage apps section to store the Org API token.

I wanted to know if this is possible in the first place. If yes how can i achieve this.

your help is much appreciated.

Thanks & Regards
Bhaskar.

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I gave this advice to a recent similar question: How to get Organization Id in codes or through what REST API? - #6 by AaronCollier

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@Bhaskar To enable end-users to manage their credentials within the app, you should store the Org API token as a secret using Forge Storage. Refer to the documentation below for guidance:

Forge Secret Store

If you prefer to store a secret as a constant across all instances of your app, follow the suggestion by @AaronCollier .

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thank you @kashsingh , i figured it out and was able to use Storage to store the API key.
however i was wondering how to use the variables like @AaronCollier said. I don’t see any example which articulates how to use variables in the code.

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You use it with something like this:

process.env.VARIABLE_NAME

So maybe:

    headers: {
      'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.ORG_API_TOKEN}`
    }
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thank you @AaronCollier, will try.
if i am not wrong to set the variables we just need to type forge variables set in the cli
and directly consume the variable like you mentioned…

i tried it before but there was no luck when i was tunneling. I was bit confused with the documentation

export FORGE_USER_VAR_MY_KEY=test

Thanks for the help.