# Issue in Playbook

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-in-playbook/33449>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-in-playbook/33449 "2020-07-21T09:03:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Gaurav](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Siddhartha_Gaurav)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-in-playbook/33449/1 "2020-07-21T09:03:02Z")

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Hi All,

Could you please help me to sort out one issue in my playbook. Below is the requested query:

I want some users input for my playbook…but I want to prompt the user when those parameters are not available in my .env file. What module should I use? Please help. \

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Akasurde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/akasurde/32/230_2.png) [@Akasurde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akasurde)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-in-playbook/33449/2 "2020-07-21T09:13:41Z")

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Use [default filter](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_filters.html#defaulting-undefined-variables) or [Prompt](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_prompts.html) or [env lookup](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/lookup/env.html)