BRUNO - Share environment variables between collections

Question

Is there a way to share environment variables between collections? It seems that an environment belongs to one specific collection and not global as in Postman.

I'm using Bruno v1.9.0

Thanks

Bessel

I have not seen a way to do what you ask thus far. I think the reason is that Bruno is designed to work locally, with a collection being the highest level of aggregation. Therefore, sharing env variable across collections is not a part of their design approach. – Befool

Answer 1

Had this problem earlier and solved it by copying and pasting the environments folder, located inside the collection folder you selected on creation/import, and that worked for me.

Uni

Answer 2

I've been testing out Bruno as an alternative for Postman and was also struggling with copy pasting the environments folder in Windows each time I created a new collection.

I stumbled on this article and now use the following setup: %userprofile%\Documents\BrunoAPI contains all my collections and a global environments folder with my shared environments.

When I create a new collection (eg: %userprofile%\Documents\BrunoAPI\MySuperCoolNewCollection) I run a small .bat file from that new directory to create a junction to the shared environments file:

mklink /J environments "%userprofile%\Documents\BrunoAPI\environments"

Now all collections where I created that junction share the same environments!

Newell

Answer 3

There is nothing like global variables as far as i know, but if you are working on linux you can use shared folders, to share one of the environment folders with the other collections

Febrific

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