Tutorial: Creating the Developer Portal

About this task

In this tutorial, you are going to complete the following lessons.

Enabling the Developer Portal through the API Manager

To create an administrator account, complete the following steps.

  1. Log in to the API Manager
  2. Click Manage icon Manage, then click Add, and select Create catalog.
  3. Select the owner from the Select user list and then enter a Title for your catalog. For example Production.
    create catalog
  4. Click Create. The Manage page appears.
    Shows the created production catalog
  5. Click the tile that corresponds to your new catalog, for example Production.
  6. Click Catalog settings.
  7. Click Gateway Services. If the message You currently don't have any gateway services is displayed, click Edit, select the configured gateway service, and click Save.
    Select gateway services
  8. Click Portal.
  9. Click Create.
    Portal list
  10. Select a portal service to use. Click Create.

    Creating portal

    After a few minutes, you receive an email with a link to your Developer Portal site for that catalog. The link is a single use only link for the administrator account.

    Creating portal email

  11. Click the email link and then click Sign in.

    First portal login

  12. Change the password and then click Submit.

    Change password

The portal site for the Production catalog is now active. The admin account cannot create applications or subscriptions. Create a new account to complete those tasks.

Portal admin home

What you did in this tutorial

In this tutorial, you completed the following activities:
  • Enabled a Developer Portal site and created an administrator account.
Note: To make sure that the required content is displayed, it is crucial to publish your product containing APIs to the appropriate catalog.

What to do next