Variables

Global Variables

A global Variable is located up in the gear with Environmental Variables. This is a variable that can be stored and manipulated from any and all collections. This is ideal if you have multiple collections using the same url or the same authentication.

Environmental Variables

Environmental Variables are so awesome they have their very own section

Session Variables

So with environmental variables your Initial one can be accessed by the whole team and your current is what your particular account will use.

Collection Variables

Collection Variable are used just for that collection. Cannot be used with Newman and they are static as in they cannot be accessed or changed. To be honest they are useless.

Path Variables

{{url}}/v1/:pathvar/dirt :pathvar can be stored as a path variable in Params with a key of pathvar and a value of 5 in order to make the path variable easier to change or storing a variable in the environmental variable.

Parameters

Are what you will be passing to the api and you can use the other variables to set them.