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Managing environments

Managing environments - Postman Tutorial

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Managing environments

- [Instructor] Postman environments are managed through the controls in the request builders upper right corner. There you'll find the environment selector, environment quick look, and manage environment controls. Right now we have no environments to find, but as we add environments, they'll each appear in the environment selector. The environment quick look button opens a panel that lets us inspect and manage both the currently selected environment as well as our global variables which are available regardless of which environment is selected. Finally, there's the manage environments button. Clicking this opens the manage environments window. Let's do that now. Initially we're shown only a brief description of what environments are and how to reference the variables. After we define an environment, it will be listed here. We begin defining an environment by clicking the Add button. We're now presented with a familiar grid editor. In this view, we're asked to name the environment…

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