# STAGING / PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT variable

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/staging-production-environment-variable/1808>\
**Category:** Ask us anything\
**Tags:** xano\
**Created:** [February 4, 2023, 7:58am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/staging-production-environment-variable/1808 "2023-02-04T07:58:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/staging-production-environment-variable/1808/5 "2023-04-06T23:34:45Z")

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Circling back on this, I would really love the ability to do the following in the native Xano plug-in…

A) set the data source used in the staging environment (in addition to the current ability to set the data source in editor/production)

B) set the API version in the editor in addition to the staging environment (the live site can just default to use the current live API branch)

Without the above, I feel like a true versioning process is very hard with the Xano integration, and it makes me want to switch to the REST API integration, which would be a lot of work and lose the value that the native Xano plugin brings.

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