Removing a Product from a Catalog

You can remove a Product from a specific Catalog by using the Products view within a Catalog in API Manager. The syndication feature in IBM® API Connect means that you can also use the Products view within a Space to remove a Product from a Catalog.

Before you begin

The Product that you are removing from the Catalog must be in the Staged or Retired state. For more information, see Staging a Product or Retiring a Product.

To complete the product management tasks that are described in this topic, you must either be the owner of the API provider organization, or be assigned Manage permission for products in the catalog that contains the product. If you have View permission for products, you have read-only access to the product management page. For information on configuring product management permissions for a catalog, see Creating and configuring catalogs.

The syndication feature in IBM API Connect means that products can be contained within a space in a catalog. In this case, to complete the product management tasks that are described in this topic, you must either be the owner of the API provider organization, or be assigned Manage permission for products in the space that contains the product. For information on configuring product management permissions for a space, see Managing user access in a space.

Procedure

To remove a Product from a Catalog, complete the following steps.

  1. In the navigation pane of the API Manager UI, click Manage icon in the API Manager UI navigation pane Manage catalogs, then select the catalog that you want to work with.
    The Products page of the catalog opens, and all of the products available in that catalog are displayed.
  2. If the product that you want to work with is contained within a space, select the required space by completing the following steps:
    1. Click the Spaces tab.
    2. Select the space that you want to work with.
    The Products page of the space opens, and all of the products available in that space are displayed.
  3. Alongside the Product version that you want to work with, click the options icon options icon, then click Delete.
    The Delete Product window opens.
  4. Click Confirm to delete the Product.

Results

Your Product is removed from the Catalog. You can stage the Product again if required; for details, see Staging a Product.

If your Product was contained within a Space in a Catalog, your Product is removed from both the Space and the Catalog.