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We can add a description to this first variable.

This information is useful for:

- documentation
- error message
- help user to known which value to set to this variable (for example with [the user data plugin Questionary](https://forge.cloud.silique.fr/stove/rougail-user-data-questionary)).
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[tutorial v1.1_011)] Describe the variable

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Screenshot

Firefox Proxy setting

Structure

firefox/00-proxy.yml

%YAML 1.2
---
version: 1.1

proxy_mode:  # Configure Proxy Access to the Internet
...

Let's generate the documentation

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_011
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -o doc
Variable                                                                                        Description                                                                                    
proxy_mode
string mandatory
Configure Proxy Access to the Internet.

Let's generate the changelog

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_011
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -o doc --doc.contents changelog

Modified variable

Variable                                                                                        Description                                                                                    
proxy_mode
string mandatory
Configure Proxy Access to the Internet.

User datas

Example 1

config/01/config.yaml

---

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_011
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/01/config.yaml
🛑 ERRORS
┗━━ The following variables are mandatory but have no value:
    ┗━━ Configure Proxy Access to the Internet

Example 2

config/02/config.yaml

---
proxy_mode: No proxy

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_011
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/02/config.yaml
╭──────── Caption ────────╮
│ Variable Modified value │
╰─────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┗━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: No proxy ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/02/config.yaml"

Example 3

config/03/config.yaml

---
proxy_mode: Manual proxy configuration

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_011
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/03/config.yaml
╭──────── Caption ────────╮
│ Variable Modified value │
╰─────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┗━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: Manual proxy configuration ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/03/config.yaml"

Example 4

config/04/config.yaml

---
proxy_mode: foo

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_011
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/04/config.yaml
╭──────── Caption ────────╮
│ Variable Modified value │
╰─────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┗━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: foo ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/04/config.yaml"

Example 5

config/05/config.yaml

---
proxy_mode: 1

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_011
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/05/config.yaml
🔔 WARNINGS
┗━━ the value "1" is an invalid string for "proxy_mode" (Configure Proxy Access to the Internet), which is not a string, it will be ignored when loading from the YAML file "config/05/config.yaml"
🛑 ERRORS
┗━━ The following variables are mandatory but have no value:
    ┗━━ Configure Proxy Access to the Internet