Postman collection import successful, but not visible on any dashboard

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the issue tracker for a bug that matches the one I want to file, without success.

Insomnia Version

2021.5.2

What operating system are you using?

macOS

Operating System Version

macOS Big Sur 11.5.2

Installation method

homebrew

Last Known Working Insomnia version

none

Expected Behavior

Collection to show up on dashboard after successful import.

Actual Behavior

No collection is visible or accessible anywhere in Insomnia.

Reproduction Steps

1. Open Insomnia
2. Under create, choose IMPORT FROM => “URL”
3. Fill in

   https://fivetran.com/assets-docs/postman/rest_api_collection.json
   

4. Press Fetch and Import
5. “Import Succeeded” message appears with “You imported 6 Folders, 35 Requests!”
6. PROBEM: No new collections…

Additional Information

I’ve tried this with Paw and Postman, which imports the collection without issues. Can also be reproduced with Insomnia native collection format https://git.io/github-v3-rest-api-for-insomnia

Exact steps in screenshots below

[develohpanda]

@blshkv Thanks for the feedback, I completely understand the frustration. To share some background, this case was an underlying bug impacting several import formats and not specifically for Postman, which made the fix for it a bit involved and extended the dev + review + QA process to ensure we have a stable fix. Once we have a stable fix though we should be able to release it faster. Although we are a small team, more frequent releases is high on our priority list, which will help in getting new features and fixed bugs resolved for end users as fast as possible once they merge. Keep an eye out for improvements here in 2022! 🙌🏽

@gh-andre no worries! It really can be tricky. I’ve hit this issue more than once. We haven’t got a practice of using milestones in GitHub which would help here, perhaps something we can look into!

[develohpanda]

Thanks for reporting this! We’ve seen a number of reports for the Postman import failing in this way. This is on our sprint and should be fixed with the upcoming major release (likely towards the end of October). 🙌🏽

In the meantime, as a workaround, you can create a Request Collection as normal, then open that collection, and select the import option.

Once you import from a file or url from within a collection, Insomnia will prompt you with a prompt, and from there choose to import into the “current workspace”.