In it, the person helping very kindly provided links to the last version of version 7 (7.36.3 I believe), so people might find that helpful.
Iām going to get one of the IT guys where I work to disabled Z-Scaler for me so we can see if that fixes the issue (Rule 3 - make friends with people in Infrastructure), so once that happens Iāll update this again.
Could you expand on the reasons why you feel using the Scratch Pad is pointless - If you elaborate more on your context and current workflow, it will help us to better understand.
@konkoutros is right. Postman v8 seems to be useless and even scratchpad is not useful. Itās not loading my workspace data in scratchpad mode then whatās the point.
If I want to test a one-off request I will use curl not the postman.
Even after adding the proxy details it not working.
How can you release a version with no local backup and works only when connected to the internet?
Hi @danny-dainton not the person you asked, but for me personally, I can use scratchpad ok. Having to specifically change to it every time I open postman is a little irritating (a whole extra button click), but more than that, itās the fact that all my saved requests werenāt imported from the previous version.
APIās is something I was very interested in using, and potentially getting the rest of my team to use as well, but now I canāt use it at all as it requires a workspace to use.
Unfortunately, I havenāt yet been able to bribe someone to help me turn off the proxy my company uses to see if that fixes the issue, but as someone else in this thread said, theyāre having issues with Z-Scaler as well, so is it possible itās actually an issue with Postman handling 307 redirects?
For me, I need multiple workspaces, partially because thatās the way I already have it setup and also because I have enough unrelated projects that I have to keep it organized somehow.
I donāt understand that feature. I have my synced workspace, it canāt update if Iām offline (or behind a proxy/vpn), fine. I often connect to VPNs for work, and if by any chance I forget to start postman before connecting to the VPN I have to disconnect, repoen postman and reconnect.
I donāt want a separate offline workspace, I just want my workspace, saved locally and backed up/updated when I connect to the internet.
This feels like when Ubisoft started to require internet connections to play local videogamesā¦ You donāt need a DRM, whatās the point?
Many companies have a āno data must be saved in public cloudā policy for security reasons. If you canāt work offline in Postman and have to sync all your work into the cloud, this app is now useless for many developpers. We need a way to ānotā sync our workspace into the cloud and to be able to fully work offline or we will need to stop using the app.
This issue is so frustrating. All my collections are saved locally, why do I have to connect to the internet to view my workspaces. I have to disconnect from the corporate vpn before being able to access my local content. Now i have to receive OTPs again, relogin to the vpn before being able to continue working again. It is honestly a frustrating update. Please do something about this guysā¦
Yeah, exactly my pointā¦ Why do you prevent me from accessing the data I have locally cached on my machine?
Especially because it does not stop working once it connects, itās just a āinternet at connectionā kind of thingā¦ @danny-dainton any insight into what pushed Postman toward such a system? Also, is it something that will be looked at?
Hey folks. Thanks for all the great feedback, and keep it coming! I work with the product design team at Postman, and I thought I could provide some perspective on where this feature is heading in the long run.
Postmanās mission is to improve your API workflows by providing collaborative tools that help maximize your efficiency. Iāll stress on the collaborative part, because workspaces are a feature that help drive this collaboration. Every feature we build on top of workspaces will be to enable these collaborative workflows.
We completely understand that some of our users cannot access online features due to restrictions imposed on them by their organizations, and there is no reason for us to not allow our non-collaborative features for you all. For this reason, we continue to support every feature that does not require collaboration or an active internet connection. With v8, the only thing thatās changed is the way we handle this. The scratch pad is meant to be inherently offline, and anything you create here stays offline and will never be confused with the online experience within workspaces. This distinction allows us to support both sets of features, without one affecting the other.
The transition to v8 for those of you who might have previously worked offline in workspaces would have been less than ideal. Youād have to export your data (https://learning.postman.com/docs/getting-started/importing-and-exporting-data/#exporting-data-dumps), and reimport it back into the Scratch Pad, but once thatās done, you should be able to work offline without any issues. If this isnāt working or is tedious for a reason that wasnāt mentioned here, weād love to hear from you and iterate on this to improve your experience.
I think you should differentiate between online/offline and collaborative/non-collaborative. Just because I donāt collaborate, does not mean I donāt need online and sync features. If I collaborate, does not mean I am not allowed to do anything if Iām offline.
If I do want to collaborate with other people, I would clearly create a Team Workspace. Otherwise, I would create a Personal Workspace. If I create a Personal Workspace, it means I work alone, and sometimes I would be offline, but it does not mean I donāt want the sync features. Why else would you have Personal or Team Workspace? Besides, using Scratchpad means my old multiple workspaces all have to be merged into 1 workspace, and it wonāt be synced, right?
Thatās why this online/offline decision in v8 is a big mistake, because your basic idea that ācollaboration = online and non-collaboration = offlineā is totally incorrect.
So the āofflineā people only get one workspace - the scratchpadā¦ Meaning that they have to lump many unrelated APIs into a single workspace and can no longer organize them in a sensible way. I fail to see how that improves my API workflow, which was already great in 7.x but pretty poor in 8.x.
I am also in agreement that the old Team/Personal workspace was clear enough in terms of ācollaborationā vs ānon-collaborationā, much clearer than the updated version which unnecessarily conflates the issue with āonlineā and āofflineā.
Hello, I am also facing the same issue with the postman. I also tried with scratchpad mode but once I get there it open and then black screen appears. It was working fine day before and since yesterday evening saysā¦offlineā¦ So all this days is it online or any other issue