Artillery.io Login and capture response and cookies before each VU runs - artillery

Question

Using Artillery.io load tester I am trying to login each VU Before running the Scenarios flow (I do not want the login requests to be part of the scenario results)
I tried moving the login flow to the beforeScenario but that doesn't seem to run
config:
target: '{{ $processEnvironment.URL }}'
scenarios:
- name: 'Warm Up'
beforeScenario:
flow:
- post:
url: '/login'
json:
username: 'admin'
password: 'password'
capture:
- json: '$.user._id'
as: 'userId'
flow:
- post:
url: '/api/graphql'
json:
- operationName: 'apiRequest'
query: 'query aQuery($userId: ID!) { aQuery: testQuery(userId: $userId) { id name } }'
variables:
userId: '{{ userId }}'
Is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Not sure if you have figured this out but i used the "before" section that comes before the scenario and calls a function to helper function that login
and saves the access_token
before:
flow:
- function: "login"
scenarios:
- name: "Create"
- flow:
- post:
url: ""
headers:
Authorization: "Bearer {{access_token}}"

Answer 2

Before your "scenarios" section, you must use something like this (just an example):
before:
flow:
- log: "Running the Authorization before virtual users run"
- post:
url: "/users/login"
json:
username: "{{user}}"
password: "{{password}}"
capture:
json: "$.data.token"
as: "accessToken"
strict: false
expect:
- statusCode: 200