Improve the variables table layout to clearly represent the visual hierarchy

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Problem to solve

We show two separate tables on the Project settings >> CI/CD >> Variables page for project and group level variables. In #222367 (closed) we're working on providing a standard treatment to the two tables, but there's still no need to have both.

Supporting Insight

Precedence order for trigger variables unclear

Intended users

• Delaney (Development Team Lead)
• Sasha (Software Developer)
• Priyanka (Platform Engineer)
• Simone (Software Engineer in Test)

User experience goal

Users shouldn't have to calculate or decipher the hierarchy of variables by looking at multiple places. It should be clearly laid out in a simple format.

Proposal - In progress

Open items

• 1. Add an indicator if a variable is being used by a project
• 1. Improve the represention of group and project on the variable list view
• Explore different layout so users can easily understand the correlation between a group, sub-group and a project variable.

Further details

#222367 (closed)

Permissions and Security

Only owners should be able to make any edits or changes to variables at group level.

Documentation

Availability & Testing

Available Tier

Feature Usage Metrics

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

Larger organization that host a lot many groups and projects in their instance.

Is this a cross-stage feature?

What is the competitive advantage or differentiation for this feature?

Having a single view where users could come to see and understand the hierarchy of all the variables that are available to a project will be beneficial as other products do not make it available it for variables today.

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