Allow creation of OAuth connections without an alias
When creating a new OAuth connection from the Manage Connections window, IC requires an alias. When I’m connecting to a sandbox/prod org, the username itself is a handy unique name for the connection. So, when I do this through the CLI, I don’t supply an alias.
It would be nice to have the same possibility in IC.
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reporter Hey Scott,
The strong use-case here is for OAuth connections to production. There’s no better alias in my mind than the unique username for that connection.
Also, our common use-case here is for sandboxes that correspond to feature branches. To start work, I need a CLI connection so that I can push/pull. I could create that from the CLI, but it’s nice to make it directly in IC.
I agree that it should have an alias for scratch orgs. And can have a username for sandboxes. But for prod, no alias is useful.
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I'll have to chew on this one a bit. The alias ends up being the connection name in IC2. Connection names also provide a level of indirection for project config, especially when checked into version control for a team. That allows a single project config to be used across all team members where a name/alias like
sandbox
can point at whichever org is needed by each team member vs. a username which is typically going to be unique per-user.