I have noticed that all initial and current values are now gone. It’s a shared value now(though I have to understand this yet). I replaced the old value with the new in the collection variable, but I don’t know how to save it. If I close the variable and move to api it still shows the old value. Pls help.
Hi @indiratwg!
We shifted to a local-first mindset. In the screenshot, you have already stored all the values since you can see the synced “cloud” icon which indicates that they are stored and “shared” in the Postman cloud.
Is there anything you think we could do to make it clearer?
Please keep the feedback coming!
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Thanks for the quick reply. Is it possible to let the people know that once it’s edited, it will save automatically? Because there was a save button before, now I think we don’t need to save the variables explicitly,right? If it’s correct, please let people know in words anywhere.
We do have an affordance that when you save with a keyboard shortcut (ctrl + s / cmd + s) we let you know that variables are saved by default!
To be transparent with you, for now, I think the interaction pattern are sensible, but I’ll keep on the look out to see if other users bring this up so we can evaluate something a bit less subtle!
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When I enter a new variable and value for environment variables in Desktop Postman, then Export, the value of the new variables don’t export. I have to go into the json file and add them manually.
Hey @brenda-brashier 
Welcome to the Postman Community! 
The data entered in the Value field, is local by default. You need to explicitly share the value, in order for it to be either synced or part of the exported file.
In the older experience, that would be the same as only having data in the Current Value, if you were to export that, the value wouldn’t be part of the file. You would have needed to also have the data set in the Initial Value.
More about how that previously worked can be found here:
I don’t want to share it with other user(s). We are using Postman Desktop, then exporting the collections and environments and putting them in a github repo and running the tests there. When I export, I’m exporting it to the repo on my machine, running it with newman, then pushing up to the github repo. I’m not seeing an option in Share to save the file locally. It will significantly affect work flow if we have to enter new values manually in the repo.