Downloading a draft Product

You can download the details of your draft Product so that you can store them for later recovery.

Before you begin

To complete this task, you must have created a draft Product. For more information, see Creating a draft Product.

About this task

You can complete this task either by using the API Designer UI application, or by using the browser-based API Manager UI.

API Manager UI only: To complete this task, you must be assigned a role that has the Product-Drafts:Edit permission. The pre-supplied Developer role has this permission by default; if you are assigned a custom role it must have this permission. For more information, see Creating custom roles.

You can download the details of your Product as a .yaml file. This file can be used to re-create your Product, although it includes only references to APIs, not the API definitions themselves. This function does not provide a way to export an entire implementation. For information about creating a Product from a .yaml file, see Importing a draft Product.

Procedure

To download a .yaml file containing details of your Product, complete the following instructions:

  1. In the navigation pane, click Develop icon in the navigation pane Develop.
  2. Select the Products tab.
  3. Alongside the Product version that you want to work with, click the options icon options icon and then click Download.
  4. Save the file to the required location.

Results

You have downloaded a .yaml representation of your Product.