I'm trying to follow this blog to understand how an Environment is implemented in SSIS 2012.
So, from what I read so far, the way I understand Environments to be is this. You define one or more Environments for your SSISDB project folder. For each Environment you get to define your environment variables. A typical environment variable is a connection string value. Once you have a set of environment variables defined, then you get to use those to put values into your project or package parameters. Do I have that correct?
Assuming my understanding is correct, let's move on to my question. I created one Environment in a project folder under the SSISDB catalog and created several variables I intend to use to define the project parameters I have. According the above article, I do that by going into the Project Properties window and choosing "References".
However, when I do that all I see are "General" and "Permissions"m as seen in the screen shot below. Did I go into the right area? I did this by right clicking on my Project and choosing Properties. Does my login need to have some elevated previlege to see the "References" section?