Use Postman workspaces

Use workspaces to organize your work in Postman and collaborate with teammates (or the world). Learn how to access, tag, and watch a workspace. You can also check the workspace activity and see who's interacting with your workspace.

To learn how to make a new workspace, go to Create a workspace in Postman. For more information about workspace management, see Manage Postman workspaces.

Access workspaces

When you first open Postman, you will be in your default personal workspace. You can create more workspaces for your personal use and to work with teammates. To create more workspaces, you need to sign in to your Postman account.

To open a workspace, select Workspaces in the Postman header. Select a workspace to open it, or select View all workspaces for a list of all available workspaces. This will only display workspaces that you have access to, based on the workspace visibility and your workspace role.

The workspace's Overview tab displays a description and summary of the workspace, and any pinned collections. On the right, there is a list of workspace contributors and the option to view workspace activity.

Access private workspaces

Private workspaces are available on Postman Professional and Enterprise plans.

A private workspace is a workspace that's only visible to the user who created it and team members who've been invited to join it. Private workspaces enable teams to restrict access to elements that are relevant only to a particular group.

To collaborate in a private workspace, a Workspace Editor or Admin must invite you. You can also request access to a workspace and get approved. If you're using the Postman web app, you can navigate to a link a teammate has shared to a private workspace or an element within one. There, you'll have the option to request access to the workspace.

You can add a note and select Request Access to submit the request. All Workspace Admins will receive a notification to review your request, and you'll be alerted by the notifications icon and by email when your request is approved or denied.

If your request isn't reviewed within 15 days, it will expire, and you'll be notified in Postman and by email to resubmit your request for access.

Tag a workspace

Tagging workspaces is available on Postman Enterprise plans.

You can apply shared tags to workspaces, collections, and APIs. Tags must be between two and 64 alphanumeric characters, starting with an alphabetical character, and contain only dashes and no spaces. You can add up to five tags. Adding shared tags to workspaces enables you to organize and search for workspaces.

Once you add tags to the workspace, you can select a tag to open search results associated with the tag in a new tab.

To learn more about searching using tag names in Postman, see Search Postman. You can use tags when searching elements in your Private API Network. You can also use tags to search for elements to add and elements to request to add to your Private API Network.

To add tags to a workspace, do the following:

1. Select Workspaces in the Postman header, and then select a workspace.

2. On the workspace's Overview tab, select the Tags field to edit it.

   

3. Select an existing tag or enter a new tag. If you're adding a new tag, enter the new tag name and press Enter.

   

Repeat these steps to add more tags.

To remove tags from a collection, do the following:

1. Select Workspaces in the Postman header, and then select a workspace.

2. On the workspace's Overview tab, select the Tags field to edit it.

3. Select on the tag.

   

4. Select the area outside the Tags field to save your changes.

Watch a workspace

Watch a workspace to receive an email or in-app notification when a team member modifies the workspace. This includes changing the workspace visibility or updating an element in the workspace.

To start watching a workspace, select Watch in the workspace's Overview tab. Select the count next to Watch to access the list of people who are watching the workspace.

To access your notifications, select Notifications in the Postman header. The notification list shows details about changes to workspaces you are watching. You will also receive an email with information about the change, who made it, and when.

To stop watching a workspace, select Unwatch in the workspace's Overview tab.

By default, you are a watcher for any workspace you create. You won't receive notifications for changes you make to a workspace you're watching.

You can also watch a collection and an API within a workspace to receive a notification when it's modified.

Pin collections to workspaces

Pinning collections to workspaces is available on Postman Free, Basic, and Professional plans.

You can pin collections to a workspace for quick access. On the workspace's Overview tab under Pinned collections, select , and then select the collection you'd like to pin.

To remove a pinned collection, hover over the collection, select , and then select Remove.

Get the workspace ID

Sometimes you'll need your workspace ID to perform different actions like copying a workspace or setting up an environment.

To copy a workspace ID, do the following:

1. On the workspace's Overview tab, select Options and then select Workspace info.

2. Select Copy workspace ID. You can also view who created the workspace and when the workspace was last updated.

   

Check the workspace activity feed

You can track activities in a workspace from the activity log accessible from your workspace overview. To learn more, see View workspace activity.

View who is in your workspace

The list of avatars in the Postman header shows you who's active in your workspace. If you're in a private or team workspace, this list includes all active team members. The list also includes all team members who are inactive, but have visited the workspace before.

If you're in a public workspace, this list includes all active users with public profiles. It also includes users who've chosen to remain anonymous by not enabling their public profile.