Enabling dynamic category creation

You can display APIs and Products in pre-defined categories in the Developer Portal. You can define the categories that the APIs and Products are displayed in, in the API Designer or API Manager UI.

Before you begin

You must have administrator access to the Developer Portal to complete this task.

Your APIs and Products must be categorized in the API Designer or API Manager UI, and they must be published. For more information, see Organizing your APIs into categories and Organizing your Products into categories.

About this task

By organizing your APIs and Products into categories, you can provide a hierarchical display for your APIs and Products in the Developer Portal.
Note: Organizing APIs and Products into a hierarchical view in the API Manager UI is different from tagging in the Developer Portal.

The categories that are defined in the API Designer or API Manager UI can be overridden by creating taxonomies in the Developer Portal. For more information, see Displaying APIs and Products in categories.

Procedure

  1. To enable the Developer Portal to display the categories for your APIs and Products:
    1. On the administrator dashboard, click Configuration > System > IBM API Developer Portal.
    2. In the Categories section, select the Create taxonomies for categories if they do not already exist check box.
    3. Click Save configuration.
  2. To enable the Developer Portal to display the change to the categories you made in step 1, you must republish your APIs and products.

Results

You enabled the Developer Portal to display the categories that you defined for your APIs and Products. You can see the categories that you defined, including the number of APIs and Products that are in each category, by selecting your APIs and Products in the Developer Portal.