How can i recover the delete global Environment Variable

priyanka.singh092 · September 8, 2020, 2:43pm

Hi,

I came cross the issue , by-mistake i deleted the the global environment variable. Is there anyway to recover those variable

Thanks
Priyanka

Kurmavatar · September 9, 2020, 4:30am

Hi @priyanka.singh092

Welcome to the community

Unfortunately, the global environments cannot be restored and the potential security ramifications of decrypting sensitive environment variables are why. Below is the feature request to add that functionality

github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support

Allow deleted environments, globals, to be restored

opened 07:07PM - 10 Apr 19 UTC

JP-from-Postman

feature Environments version-control product/runtime

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** While Collections can be restored from trash and activity feed, environments and globals are not recoverable once deleted. This is especially problematic for shared environments that may be used in multiple workspace by different team members. Environments also do not have their own permissions (as Collections do), which may increase the likelihood of accidental deletions. **Describe the solution you'd like** Include changes to environments and globals in activity feed, and make them restorable in the same way as collections. Include deleted environments and globals in user's trash, and make them restorable as Collections are. **Describe alternatives you've considered** None **Additional context** Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

Happy to share some context to prevent this issue from happening again. If you only “remove” the environment from the workspace, you can add it to back to your workspace again:

If this is the case, then you (or the person who created the environment) can look for it on https://go.postman.co/me/environments, and then click on “Share” to add it back to a workspace.

You can also check the above page to see if this environment is still in another workspace, and if it is, share it back to the workspace you need it in.

Hope this helps!