Using the CMS Portal

As well as enabling application developers to find and use your APIs, the CMS Portal also provides features such as API analytics, forums, blogs, and rating facilities.

The CMS Portal is a convenient place to share APIs with application developers. After a CMS Portal has been enabled through the API Manager, and one or more API Products have been published, application developers can browse and use the APIs. Typically, a CMS Portal is customized to fit the corporate branding and design requirements of a particular organization. For more information about configuring a CMS Portal site, see Configuring the CMS Portal site. However, when the CMS Portal is first enabled it can be used as is, for example for test and development purposes, or for internal use only.

The following topics provide information about the main API consumer concepts in the CMS Portal, and how an application developer can navigate the default site. However, bear in mind that the actual consumer experience might be very different depending on how the site is configured. For tutorials guiding you through enabling a CMS Portal site, and navigating and using APIs as an application developer, see Tutorial: Creating the CMS Portal and Tutorial: Creating Accounts and Applications on the CMS Portal.