Postman: unable to input user-defined value within URL - postman

I am trying to enter a user-defined value in the URL:
https://api.insideview.com/api/v1/company/{companyId}/familyTree
Here {companyId} is supposed to be user-defined.
I am unable to do so using informatica.
It is not accepting value in between.
How should I modify my settings to make this enabled?

In Postman, user defined variable are enclosed in double brackets, so:
https://api.insideview.com/api/v1/company/{{companyId}}/familyTree

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I use Postman for REST API testing and parametrize tests with global variables.
I should put a phone number into GET request: /path/get?phone={{phone}} but leading + sign in the phone number is interpreted as a space.
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As much as some of the answers helped, I ended up coming up with a combined solution. Also, some of the code given in other answers is outdated as Postman has updated their API over the years, so this uses methods that work on 7.22.1.
pm.environment.set("basicJSON", '[{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"},{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}]')
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