Organizing your APIs and Products into categories

You can organize your APIs and Products into categories. The APIs and Products that you categorize are displayed within the Developer Portal, in their defined categories.

Before you begin

Your role must have the necessary permissions to stage and publish Products.

About this task

You can complete this task either by using either the API Designer UI application, or by using the browser based API Manager UI.

By organizing your APIs and Products into categories, you can provide a hierarchical display for your APIs and Products in the Developer Portal.

Note: Organizing APIs and Products into a hierarchical view in the API Manager or API Manager UI is different to tagging in the Developer Portal.

Procedure

In the navigation pane, click Develop.
Click the title of the API or Product that you want to work with.
Click Categories.
In the Categories text box, enter the hierarchical taxonomy path that you want your API or Product to follow, in the following format:
```
top_level_element / next_level_element / x_level_element
```
For example:
```
Animals / Fluffy / Cat
```
After you have completed entering the category specifications for the API or Product, click Save.
In the API Manager UI, publish the Product that you have staged by following the steps in Publishing a new Product.

What to do next

Publish the Product; see Publishing a new Product.
After publishing the Product, you can, in the Developer Portal, display the APIs and Products in the categories that you have defined. For more information, see Displaying APIs and Products in categories.