Adding users to a Consumer organization

If the API Provider organization administrator has granted you permission to collaborate, you can invite users to join your Consumer organization. Those organization members can then access the Developer Portal and use the APIs that have been made available to the Consumer organization.

About this task

Depending on the permissions enabled by the Provider organization administrator, members can view applications and application activity, create and edit applications, manage client keys and subscribe to API Plans, or perform all activities.
Note: Every account in the Developer Portal, including across different user registries for the same site, must have a unique email address, including the site Admin account. For example, if you configure three different user registries for a particular Developer Portal site, the email address alice@acme.com can be used to log in to the site from only one of the user registries. The default email address for the Admin account is the email address of the Catalog owner. It is not possible to create a user account (and associated Consumer organization) with the same email address as the Admin account (or that of the Catalog owner if their email address is different). Any attempts to create an account with the same email address results in the new account not functioning correctly, and returning the following error message when trying to log in: A user already exists with this email address.

Procedure

To invite users to join your Consumer organization, complete the following steps.

Note: The ability to invite users is only visible if the API Provider organization administrator has granted you permission to collaborate.

  1. Sign in to your user account in the Developer Portal.
  2. Click the arrow next to your Consumer organization name on the Developer Portal home page, and click My organization.
    The organization page is displayed.
  3. On the Manage tab, select Invite.
  4. Enter the email address of the new user in the Email field.
  5. Under the Assign Roles heading, use the radio buttons to select a role for the new user, the roles are:
    • Administrator-- Can administer the Consumer organization, including invite new members, and can create, and edit applications, manage client keys, and subscribe to API Plans.
    • Developer-- Can create and edit applications, manage client keys, and subscribe to API Plans.
    • Viewer-- Can only view applications and application activity.

    For full details of the permissions that are assigned to the Developer Portal roles, see API Connect user roles.

  6. Click Submit.
    An invitation is sent to the new user.

Results

The user is added to the Consumer organization list of members, and they are sent an email inviting them to join the organization. The user must click the link that is provided in the email to activate their account, and complete the setup.