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API collections are shared with people who were not there when they were built. Typally types what you say straight into Postman — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Postman lets you type.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Postman already does without talking you out of using it.None. Descriptions and documentation fields are typed.
A Postman collection is documentation whether you treat it as such or not. Requests with no description get copied, misunderstood and misused by the next team that inherits them.
In practice people use it for: Request and collection descriptions, example explanations, test comments, and the documentation Postman publishes from your collection.
You do not configure anything in Postman. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:
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Text goes wherever Postman has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Postman's description fields support markdown, so dictated punctuation can restructure the text.
Typally types into request and collection descriptions, so the documentation Postman publishes from your collection actually says something. Describing what a request is for and when not to use it takes seconds spoken, and it is what stops someone calling a destructive endpoint out of curiosity.
A backend team publishes its collection as public API documentation and dictates a description for each of sixty endpoints in an afternoon. Support questions from integrating partners drop sharply.
Describe what a request is for and when not to use it. The second half is what stops someone calling a destructive endpoint out of curiosity.
Postman's description fields support markdown, so dictated punctuation can restructure the text.
No. All fields are typed.
Postman generates published documentation from those descriptions. Empty ones produce documentation that lists endpoints and explains nothing.
Tests are JavaScript — symbol-dense and better typed. Descriptions are the prose part.
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