Import Environment File
objective on this page, you will import the postman environment file this file contains a number of global variables that will be utilized within various api calls you will make during other labs throughout the bootcamp import environment file download the ajo bootcamp postman environment json file launch postman on your local machine if necessary, switch to the workspace you are using for these labs (if you're using workspace at all) and click on the import button paste the local url of the ajo bootcamp postman environment json file into the import modal text box or drop it into the import dialog box this should trigger an automatic import once imported, validate that the environment exists by clicking on the environments tab in the left sidebar you should see that the ajo bootcamp environment is now available to you set environment variables postman was designed for testing and interacting with apis however, we're using it to simulate aep web sdk hits from a browser or for server side real time data collection calls while these are still api calls in the strictest sense of the term, they aren't typical api calls that require things like authorization tokens in the header the environment variables in these labs are mainly used for variables in url paths (with one being used in a header) you will need to reference the sandbox assignment pdf file that was sent to you earlier to get one of the values required for your environment file if necessary, click on the environments tab in the left sidebar of postman c lick on the ajo bootcamp environment file you should see some values that you need to fill in skip the datastream config value for now you will create a datastream configuration in a later lab u pdate the edge region field with the region code that is closest to where we are physically located for this bootcamp, using the table below as a look up region region code western us or2 eastern us va6 europe irl1 australia aus3 japan jpn3 asia spg3 when done, your environment file should look similar to this you now need to save your environment variables; however, there is no save button in the postman ui you will need to use the windows or mac hot keys for saving (ctrl+s on windows, for example) you will know your changes have been saved when you see a changes saved message in the lower right hand side of the postman ui congratulations! you have completed your postman environment file