Settings are blank in the Admin UI when loaded from the Configuration

[jbytes1027]

Problem

Settings are blank in Admin UI when loaded from the Configuration (e.g. appsettings.json):

This makes you think these values are not set, when in-fact they are.

Note: The example is for the Microsoft module but I assume it's true for all the other modules that allow loading from the Configuration.

Proposed solution

Show in the UI that the setting was already set by the config. For example make the input non-editable and set the text to the valued loaded from the environment and with a message explaining the value was overridden by the Configuration. Or a simpler solution would just be a banner saying "some settings are overridden by Configuration" or something.

Other solutions

1. Remove loading from Configuration. Would reduce complexity, confusion, and project scope. Discussion and decision not to in configuration stored in appsettings.json is not taken into account #15310.
2. Load Configuration into UI and/or DB as default values. Would be confusing and updating them would override hidden DB valued the user never knew about.

[hishamco]

I think something goes wrong here, it should work. Are you sure that you setup the settings in appsettings.json properly?

[jbytes1027]

I didn't actually fully set up Entra ID but with a debugger I can see the values are loaded in AzureADOptionsConfiguration.Configure and applied to the options variable without the warning.

An erroneous warning is logged, but that's part of #17299.

[Piedone]

Showing a banner that these settings are loaded from external configuration would be a good solution, because that can be overridden if you set the config from the admin. I think we have examples of such banners for other features.

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