Manage Environments

As an administrator, you can add and manage several logical environments in Smart Trading Cloud, such as a TEST or a DEV environment. This enables you to conduct testing activities for your organization across various environments.

While adding an environment, you must provide a short name for the environment, containing a maximum of four characters. The short name is displayed on the left navigation bar and it lets you identify the environment that you are currently logged into. The short name for the Production environment is PROD. If you already have an organization account on Smart Trading Cloud, you will see your default organization environment as the PROD environment. However, you can switch to other environment(s) based on your need.

When you, as an administrator, create an environment, Smart Trading Cloud:

  • Copies the profile information (information about the organization details and contact) of the organization account to the newly created environment. This means that all the information on the Manage Organization Account page in the new environment would be the same as the PROD environment.

  • Displays Organization ID as the organization name for the PROD environment on the Manage Organization Account page. For example, if the Organization Name is “Health Plan,” then the Organization ID is “health.plan.” For other environments, such as TEST and DEV, the Account Service displays the organization ID as OrganizationName-EnvironmentShortName. When you switch from one environment to another (for example, from PROD to TEST), the organization name remains the same, but the organization ID changes to OrganizationName-TEST (for example: “health.plan-test”).

  • Adds all administrator users from the PROD environment as guest users () under the Administrators group of the newly created environment.

After you have created a new environment, you can

Environment Deletion/Deactivation

You cannot:

  • Delete any environment.

  • Deactivate the default Production (PROD) environment.

  • Deactivate the current environment you are logged into.

When you deactivate an environment, and the environment remains deactivated for 45 days, then after 45 days the environment can be deleted by Edifecs.

Service Subscriptions

While creating a new environment, you can subscribe to services for each environment. When you request subscription for a service which has already been subscribed for the Production environment, then Smart Trading Cloud automatically approves the request and the service is subscribed to your environment immediately. However, when you request subscription for a service that has not been subscribed for the Production environment, then the request is sent to Edifecs for approval. After Edifecs approves the request, the service is subscribed to your environment.

  1. On the left navigation bar, click on the current environment short name. For example, if you are inside the Production environment, click .
  2. Under Environment Switcher, click Manage Environments.
  3. On the top right corner, click + Add.
  4. Provide a name and a short name for the environment.
  5. Under the Applications and the Documentation tabs, select the required service subscriptions.
    Or, you can enter the service name in the Service Subscriptions text box to select the required service.
  6. Click OK.

To be able to switch between different environments, a user must be added to each of those environments in the Administrator or Viewer role.

  1. On the left navigation bar, click on the current environment short name. For example, if you are inside the Production environment, click .
  2. Under Environment Switcher, click on the desired environment you want to switch to.
  1. On the left navigation bar, click on the current environment short name. For example, if you are inside the Production environment, click .
  2. Under Environment Switcher, click Manage Environments.
  3. On the name bar of the environment you want to activate or deactivate, click or .

If the environment you want to deactivate is your current environment, you must switch to any other environment and then you can delete the previous environment.

  1. On the left navigation bar, click on the current environment short name.

  2. Under Environment Switcher, click Manage Environments.

  3. Click Switch to this Environment on the name bar of any environment other than your current environment.

  4. On the name bar of your previous environment, click .

  1. On the left navigation bar, click on the current environment short name. For example, if you are inside the Production environment, click .
  2. Under Environment Switcher, click Manage Environments.
  3. On the name bar of the environment you want to rename, click .
  4. Provide environment name and short name.
  5. Click OK.