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Suggestion
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Current situation
Our Bamboo variables documentation lacks clarity in the encryption topic.
Accepted solution
Our document on System-wide encryption mentions that
Variables that include keywords such as "secret" and "password". These variables will also be obfuscated in the UI
This needs to be mentioned in the document on variables.
Apart from this, there are certain scenarios that are not clarified. To summarize them: if the variable name is edited, or re-saved without any changes, then the password must be input again, otherwise its value will not be the same as before.
Current behavior (click obfuscated var name, click save, silently get your value cleared) is a bug. Documenting it is the least you can do.
The best you can do is, either: