# Postman flows accessing Environment

**URL:** <https://community.postman.com/t/postman-flows-accessing-environment/86705>\
**Category:** Help Hub\
**Tags:** setenvironmentvariab, postman-flows\
**Created:** [November 12, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-flows-accessing-environment/86705 "2025-11-12T11:37:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jim-smyth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jim-smyth](https://community.postman.com/u/jim-smyth)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-flows-accessing-environment/86705/1 "2025-11-12T11:37:45Z")

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Hi,

I have an issue accessing environment variables from a request. The flow points at the correct env but does not resolve any variables.

Reading [this post](https://community.postman.com/t/solved-environment-variables-in-blocks-of-postman-flow/71219) IIUI I need to set my variables to the correct type so they are set as String and I have tried leaving the value blank, using the variable name eg auth\_url and also using the value {{auth\_url}}.

In the image below I left the other variables blank until I get the first one resolved.,.,.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/original/3X/d/7/d715937d94076ad4e7a072df7529ff1050f607e5.png)

Any input appreciated.

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**Author:** ![flows-daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/flows-daniel/32/25516_2.png) [@flows-daniel](https://community.postman.com/u/flows-daniel)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-flows-accessing-environment/86705/2 "2025-11-12T21:49:53Z")

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Hi @jim-smyth

Welcome to the forums!

If you have a variable with the name “auth\_url” already in your selected environment, it will autofill. What you have right now is overriding the environment values because you put a string block there. If you right click on the string and remove it then it should work as expected.

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**Author:** ![jim-smyth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jim-smyth](https://community.postman.com/u/jim-smyth)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 8:36am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-flows-accessing-environment/86705/3 "2025-11-13T08:36:17Z")

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@flows-daniel

MANY thanks! Your explanation makes it very clear (and it now works of course). I guess the UI or docs could make this a bit more apparent, but at least this thread exists for others who might have the same issue in the future!

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**Author:** ![lunar-module-1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/lunar-module-1/32/26132_2.png) [@lunar-module-1](https://community.postman.com/u/lunar-module-1)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-flows-accessing-environment/86705/4 "2025-11-20T00:09:11Z")

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we’re going to improve how you access environments - thanks for the feedback!