Can't pass environment variables to an sbt task in intellij

Question

When running a play application from IntelliJ, VM parameters and environment variables greyed out in run configuration when 'Use sbt shell' checked. How can I pass an env variable to the sbt task, other then unchecking the 'run as sbt task' checkbox or setting the env variable globally on the machine?

Answer 1

Been there. Use .env file and add plugin: https://github.com/mefellows/sbt-dotenv to your project. Working for me great.