Postman Overview

launch to postman to access postman you can launch it directly from your lab workstation using the icon highlighted in blue below create postman account to use postman in this lab you will unfortunately need to create an account this is a postman requirement and not adobe when you first launch postman you should see the following screen you can click on the sign up for free which will open a web browser the browser page that opens should look like the below image proceed with either option listed below create a new account using any email you'd like (needs to be your email) sign in with an existing account when you are done authenticating you should be redirected back to the postman application on your desktop and be good to proceed postman interface open postman and quickly familiarize yourself with a few areas of the application for the purposes of working experience platform we really only need to focus on a few key areas of the application sidebar the sidebar is what allows you to navigate quickly across the different postman elements during the labs you will only use the two items below collections groups of saved requests that can be imported from an external location or created by yourself environments a set of variables that you can reference in your postman requests in experience platform you can think of postman environments as synonymous with adobe ims orgs we will use the environment's function in postman header workspaces enable you to organize your work into various groupings (i e projects, teams, etc ) main work area the main work area is where you will perform a majority of your work when working in postman all api requests are exposed in a specific tab within the main work area right sidebar provides additional access to tools based on the current tab selected examples are documentation for the request, comments and code snippets to name a few features environment selector allows you to quickly switch between different environments to access pre configured variables when working apis when working with experience platform you will leverage this when working in a specific adobe ims org footer at the very bottom of the postman application you will find a set of functions that allow you to quickly see the logs for the calls you made, quick access to find and replace and various other functions