Hi, When I run a collection with an environment using Postman CLI it doesn’t seem to set or pickup the environment variables: postman collection run (collection-uuid) -e (environment-uuid) This is the format of the request - https://api .{{Env}}.mycompany.tech/person/create This is my collectio…

Hi @faisalk-ps Thanks for this post. You’re right, Postman CLI will only fetch and use the environment values marked as “Shared” to the cloud, given it executes independently of the desktop/web apps and needs to fetch the synced variable values from the cloud to run a collection. If there’s anythi…

@devesh-kumar-postman - I think the environment is created using the UUID with the Keys correct? Why doesn’t pm.environment.set(‘Env’, “test”); in the collection pre-request set the value at runtime?

Hi @faisalk-ps It seems that you’re using Vault methods in the pre-request script which aren’t currently supported in Postman CLI (Your Vault is linked to your app instance - I.E: The desktop app or desktop agent you run), and hence the statements for setting the environment variables aren’t getting…

Yes, for the vault codes etc figured out can’t access them on the cloud and have updated the runner to pass them in as an env variable. Also passing in test data file from a known path: postman collection run XXXX-XXX-XXXX -e YYYY-YYYY-YYYY --env-var “vaultSubKey=ZZZZZ” -d “C:\Postman Test Data\TES…

This is the console logging from the desktop app: Current Environment: STAGING Env: staging vaultSubKey: ***** and this is the logging from the runner: ┌ │ ‘Current Environment: TEST’ └

Postman CLI - Not picking up or setting Environment variables from Collection Pre-request

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faisalk-ps (Fais) November 25, 2025, 11:20am 2

Ok, the issue with the environmental variables seems to be fixed by “sharing” the variables to the cloud

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Postman CLI - Not picking up or setting Environment variables from Collection Pre-request

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