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Variable Libraries in Pipelines

Is it just me, or is managing variables in Microsoft Fabric pipelines a bit of a manual task right now?

Currently, if we use Environment Variable Libraries, we have to manually "pull in" or define every single variable in the pipeline before we can actually use them.

For example, if I am working on a ETL pipeline, I have to manually add:

- Finance_DataFlowId

- Finance_DestinationWorkspaceId

- Finance_LakehouseId

- Finance_LakehouseSQLEndpoint

Now, imagine doing this for IT, Operations, and HR departments too. If I have 10 variables per department, my pipeline setup becomes very long and repetitive.

What I’m thinking is - wouldn’t it be much more efficient if we could pull these dynamically? 💡

Ideally, I should be able to create a string dynamically (e.g., [DeptName]_DataFlowId) and have the pipeline fetch that specific value directly from the library at runtime.

No more manual mapping for every single variable. Just one dynamic activity to fetch what we need based on the department or section we are processing. This would make ETL pipelines so much cleaner and easier to scale!

What are your thoughts? Are you guys also facing this, or have you found a clever workaround using dynamic expressions?

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