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Allow functionality to open two tabs side by side.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. A lot of time i want to compare two requests/reponses from apis. I always have to switch tabs to see.
Describe the solution you'd like if we could allow two request/examples tabs side by side.
Describe alternatives you've considered
- open two windows
- open tabs, and keep switching between them.
Additional context
My team uses postman extensively, but I often use JUnit test drivers with our Kotlin client, switching from IntelliJ to Postman is always jarring and this is one of the main reasons. You can't even have multiple tabs of variables open let alone side-by-side
I'm currently logged into postman web browser side by side the app comparing files like a barbarian. I hope this gets some attention soon.
A request and environment open side by side would also be a great use case for this when modifying environment variables.
Please prioritize this! ❤️
Please, add this as soon as possible. It is really basic functionality, which should have been existing since begging.
Thank you. :)
It happens a lot to us where I need to copy response from a tab and use as the request body in another tab, being able to see both tabs at the same time helps me identifying any typo or missing fields. So please prioritize this! ❤️
I'm currently comparing two (apparently) equal requests where one fails and the other succeeds, trying to figure out what is different between them and having to switch tabs is so slow 😢
Having side by side requests would be so helpful!
Workaround: Install official VS Code extension and use Postman there. There is possible to have two (or more) opened tabs side by side :)
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Postman.postman-for-vscode
Workaround: Install official VS Code extension and use Postman there. There is possible to have two (or more) opened tabs side by side :)
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Postman.postman-for-vscode
Actually, I've tried it and the Postman tab itself seems to be limited to a single instance. Ie. opening a different request or env view will always open in the same tab and there is no drag and drop to new panels or other way to split it up as far as I can see.
Splitting with other views such as regular code files, markdown or anything unrelated to Postman of course still works and may be useful.
In general I like the extension, thanks for the recommendation, but it does not solve the Postman split view issue as discussed here.
@domjancik Could you share the version you're on? You can open different tabs side by side in the VSCode extension. Are you trying to open the same request/env side by side or different ones?
https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/assets/9638586/917e6e17-d347-4102-aaae-378768495d3b
Ah, you're right it is there. I had to press on the 3 dot menu and select Enable tabs.
It was not enabled by default, making everything open in a single one. Extension version 0.5.4
October 2023 and still not able to split screen! I'd pay to be able to do it
I can't believe this feature is not available, it would really take the usability to another level.
@markwasilwa not ideal, but as a workaround you can open a new Postman Window with ctrl-shift-n and put them side-by-side. It kind of feels like this is a shortcoming of the entire Electron based (or influenced) app ecosystem. They would have loved Windows 3 era :laughing:
@markwasilwa not ideal, but as a workaround you can open a new Postman Window with ctrl-shift-n and put them side-by-side. It kind of feels like this is a shortcoming of the entire Electron based (or influenced) app ecosystem. They would have loved Windows 3 era 😆
true, it's not ideal. If only 2 Postman Windows side-by-side could compare the request/response with "diffing". I needed to compare two large JSON payloads to the same endpoint, I used an IDE
Using on VSCode worked well for me as a workaround. Ideally this would be part of the postman app tho!
