Right Click Drag & Drop to Copy

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I’m building out a toolbox that would allow developers to simulate various traffic flows by copying a template from the ‘toolbox’ into a Folder to run. In this picture The “Steps to Copy” folder has all the templates/tools that would be used in other folders. The “Example Steps to Run” holds the steps that I would execute in the Runner.

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Currently, I need to right-click a request and choose “Duplicate” then drag that copy down to the new folder. It is pretty much a standard that right-click drag/drop gives you the choice to move or copy. Having that ability in Postman would be very helpful.

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This has been a pain point of mine for the life of using Postman. I don’t understand how they have yet to add it.

There has been a “Feature Request” open on this since Dec 2016. You can check out the request on Github

Please add more comments to this as well so maybe we can make them finally do something about the lack of this feature that is desperately needed.

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Hi @cakeeddy, @TheTreyThomas

First off, I want to sincerely apologize that this request has been sitting here without a reply from us since 2018. We regret not having engaged with you earlier.

The good news is that we’re now working on exactly this type of functionality. We’ll be introducing shortcuts for drag-and-drop so you can directly duplicate or reuse requests across collections, and the reused requests will stay in sync. You can try a rough prototype here: https://copy-and-reuse-requests-prototype.vercel.app/.

We’d really value your feedback on this approach. Do you see it serving your use case? Anything specific you’d like to see improved or adjusted would be very helpful.

Thanks again for raising this (and for your patience all these years). We hope this solution finally addresses your need.