Azure Devops: How to set group variable with if statement

Question

I'm trying to set the variable group according to one varible that exists in the pipeline. The yaml looks like this:

But i'm getting the following error when i'm running the pipeline:

If i remove the "- group : QA" or "- group : PROD" the pipeline runs without any problem. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

This is slightly different solution but you may achieve your goal - which is if I understood conditional selection of variable group.

You can use runtime parameters:

parameters:
- name: environment
  displayName: Environment
  type: string
  default: QA
  values:
  - QA
  - PROD

stages:
- stage:
  displayName: 'Build and Restore'
  variables:
  - group: ${{ parameters.environment }}
  jobs:
    - job:
      steps:
      - script: echo $(name)

than running a build you can select your envrionment:

Note: I have defined two variable groups QA and PROD with variable name in both groups.