Hi I have collections imported into my Postman. Now I have created a new Collection and created a folder under it. I now would want to move the existing collection into this newly created folder. Is that even possible in Postman? Thanks Sowji

@kns.gogreen you should be able to drag and drop the collections into folders. [dragging]

So I have to pull each request from the old collection into the newly created folder that I want…but there is no way I can move them at once or import them into a folder. Correct?

Hey @kns.gogreen ! At the moment you’ll need to move requests one by one. It’s a bit tedious, but if you have dozens or perhaps hundreds of requests you’d like to move in bulk, another option would be to export both collections as json and copy/paste the desired section of requests into the appropria…

but in this gif, only individual requests are being dragged and dropped, not a collection itself. That is what OP asks, to move existing collection into another folder.

Still not able to move a collection (which itself has folders an request) to another folder in 2020

Answer appears to still be negative.

Come on guys! This is important feature. Today I spend like an hour dragging like idiot request by request. Just implement drag and drop functionality for folders. Should not be that hard. Best Regards, Dido

Postman is a really reusable design so you have real flexibility if you want to play around with it . You can export postman collection as JSON and then edit it. The collection is available as “item” property of the collection json: you can enclose the array inside item as : { "info": { …

Ok that is actually useful :slight_smile: Thanks!

Is it possible to move existing collections into a folder?

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praveendvd (Praveen) April 21, 2021, 9:06am 12

Please havea a look

i created a collection that can do this

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