I’ve put the Important information in bold just to make it easier to skim read. This may sound strange, but I have a situation where someone I’m working with is using only collection variables as integer storage. They are using the variables to store integers, and need to edit them in a pre-request…

P.S. I’m much more of a C# user and don’t know much about JavaScript’s formatting, so if possible, in any solution ideas, example formatting would also be a great help.

[image] danny-dainton: let money = parseInt(pm.collectionVariables.get('money')) pm.collectionVariables.set('money', money - 200) This seems to come back with an interesting result… on the first run, it come up as “null” but on a second run, it successfully posted “300” (initial 500 subtr…

Can you edit Collection Variables in a Pre-request script?

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danny-dainton (Danny Dainton) August 6, 2020, 8:07pm 3

Would something like this work?

let money = parseInt(pm.collectionVariables.get('money')) 

pm.collectionVariables.set('money', money - 200)

Not been able to run this yet so I’m just giving you a quick idea

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Can you edit Collection Variables in a Pre-request script?

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