Inviting participants for API programs

As an administrator, API provider, or API partner, you can invite participants to work on an API program (Hackathon or Beta program).

Procedure

  1. Expand the menu options, select Manage, and select Programs.
  2. Select Hackathons and click Create hackathon and provide a name for the hackathon.
  3. Click API programs, and select an API program (Hackathon or Beta program).
  4. Click Invite participants from the Participants section of the program details page.
  5. Provide the email addresses of the participants that you want to invite and click Invite.

What to do next

  • Users who received the invite mail can click the link and follow the instructions to sign up to Developer Portal. During sign-up, users must provide their username and the password that they can use to access the portal. The users who sign up are automatically registered for the API program to which they were invited.
  • Users who sign up by using the mail invite are assigned with the Consumer role, by default.
  • Newly signed up users can participate in the API programs that they were invited; and use other features of the application.
  • Users who are invited by administrators by using this feature do not undergo the onboarding approval process, if any. In addition, if you have enabled Email verification as a part of your onboarding process, it is ignored for users who sign up using the mail invite. For information about onboarding strategy and email verification, see Onboarding strategy.