Collections Are Auto-Collapsing

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@danny-dainton I came across this issue with details below, please let me know if there is a more relevant place to send this.

Overview: A collection will auto-collapse when

  • Adding a new request
  • Editing an existing request
  • Deleting a request

Reason This Is An Issue: This is an issue because if you have hundreds of Collections or subfolders within a Collection all of them close whenever you make a change or update a request, causing you to endlessly reopen the Collection and hunt for the correct subfolder.

System Info:

  1. MacOS Sequoia Version 15.7.3
  2. Postman App Version 12.0.7 (UI Version: 12.0.7-ui-260306-0828 / Desktop Platform Version: 12.0.6 (12.0.6) )

Steps To Reproduce:

  1. Open the Postman App Version 12.0.7 (UI Version: 12.0.7-ui-260306-0828 / Desktop Platform Version: 12.0.6 (12.0.6) )
  2. Click on the “+” symbol to create a new Collection and name it “Test Collection 1”
  3. Search for “Test Collection 1” and note the Collection is collapsed (closed)
  4. Expand “Test Collection 1” and click on the “Add Request” button
  5. Note: “Test Collection 1” immediately closes when attempting to add a new request and you must reopen it
  6. Reopen “Test Collection 1” and select the request you’ve just added named “Test Collection 1”
  7. Add a fake URL to the GET portion of the request, something like https://www.test.api.com and Save the request using the “Save” icon (or CTRL/CMD + S)
  8. Note: “Test Collection 1” auto-closes after the change has been saved
  9. Reopen “Test Collection 1” and select the request named “Test Collection 1”
  10. Update the request URL from https://www.test.api.com to https://www.test.api.com/company
  11. Again save the changes using the “Save” icon or (CTRL/CMD + S)
    12 Note: “Test Collection 1” immediately closes after saving the changes. And again, you must reopen "“Test Collection 1” to continue making changes

This occurs for anything you do within the collection. It appears the UI is refreshing itself, and in doing so collapses the Collection.

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Hey :waving_hand:

Welcome to the Postman community! :postman:

Can you also share visual examples or a video, please?

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Hi Danny ~ Sorry for not attaching the video in the original post. Unfortunately, I’m not able to upload a video because my account is so new. I’m getting the Sorry, new users can not upload attachments. message.

Is there another way I can send the video over? Possibly through email?

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I was able to revert back to Postman Version 11.87.2 and no longer have the issue. I’ll be staying on this version forever :upside_down_face:

Version 11.87.2
UI Version: 11.87.2-ui-260304-0632
Desktop Platform Version: 11.86.1 (11.86.1)

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Hey @jserene :waving_hand:

I’m using 12.1.1 and I’m not seeing the Collection collapsing each time a request is added to the Collection.

I think that the behaviour of the filter and having text still in the field, could be causing it to close though.

Once the request is created, the filter is reducing the view in the sidebar to only show what matches and as the request doesn’t match, it hides it.

There looks to be a couple more highlight based issues looking at this as the active tab is not always highlighted in the sidebar.