Environment variables suddenly stopped populating

I have an API setup under “APIs” that uses 2 environment variables from the “global scope” of the project: CHECKMATE_API_URL and CHECKMATE_API_TOKEN. These have been working just fine when I use them under my API’s collections - although sometimes I do remember them not being populated on the first request but then the second request went through. Today, however, they’ve suddenly stopped being recognized/populated at all and I’m not sure why.

When I hover over them I can see the variable’s value, but once the request goes through it’s just replaced by a string representing the environment variable and enclosing braces, like {{checkmate_api_url}}:


Any help is appreciated,
Thanks!

I’m having the same issue, using version 11.20
Colleagues using version 11.19 don’t have any problem, so it seems to come from latest upgrade.

Can you please fix this asap ?

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Hi @docking-module-cos10 @aredor. Welcome to the Postman Community and thank you for raising this issue.

This is a weird behaviour and I have been unable to replicate it on my end. However, I have escalated this to the relevant team to have a look.

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Thanks @gbadebo-bello

Here’s some installation details that may be helpful:

Version: 11.20.0

UI version: 11.20.0-ui-241111-0639

Desktop platform version 11.20.0

Architecture x64

OS platform win32 10.0.26100

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Hi @docking-module-cos10 @aredor do either of you have a collection you can share? Are you experiencing this in global scope only or all scopes?

I wasn’t able to reproduce this on either 11.19 or 11.20

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What would be the best way to share it without posting a public URL here @navigation-candidat7

You can add me through email - [email protected]

Shared it. At the moment I’m getting inconsistent behavior - whenever I open Postman, the first request fails in the way I’ve described above but subsequent requests work.

Hi @docking-module-cos10

Thanks for sharing the API with me. I’m part of the Checkmate team now but I’m not able to reproduce the issue. I don’t think the workspace you shared with me is the exact same, but I was still able to have {{CHECKMATE_API_URL}} resolve to localhost.

If you or anyone else is able to consistently reproduce this, please feel free to share here or with me directly.

Hi @navigation-candidat7 , appreciate your time on helping out with this. I’ve uploaded a GIF that shows a consistent reproduction of the issue: the first request upon opening Postman always fails.

Hey @docking-module-cos10, could you share the application logs when this error occurs? This guide should help: https://support.postman.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025298633-How-to-get-logs-from-the-Postman-Desktop-app. These logs could help us get to the root of the issue you mentioned.