Improvements for Insomnia Pre-request Script Overview documentation

[bartoszWesolowski]

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What article on docs.insomnia.rest is affected?

https://docs.insomnia.rest/insomnia/pre-request-script

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

Variables Manipulation

Additional information

Hello,

I am writing some scripts for Insomnia collections and found it difficult to understand how variables are evaluated. I would be great to include additional info in the documentation, for example:

1. There are multiple objects that I can use to get variables: insomnia.environment, insomnia.baseEnvironment, insomnia.variables - it would be great to have an implicit documentation that would state which object reference which variables (base configuration, collection environment, folder variables).
2. We have multiple levels of configuration, it would be grate do have documentation that states how they are evaluated, is sub-config json merged with the parent config or it override all? Same for collection config and sub configs, directory variables.
3. How to access folder variables and how are they merged in the folder hierarchy. I have collection env with variable x=col-env-value, and I also added a folder, on which I created environment variable x=dir-env-value. How this folder level variable can be accessed in script? Script is on parent folder, variables on child folder.

Best regards,
Bartek

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