Creating a developer account to customize API properties

You can customize the properties for public APIs, as well as for APIs that are not viewable by the administrator, in the Developer Portal by creating an internal developer organization that can view and access all APIs staged to that Catalog as part of a Product.

Before you begin

You must have administrator or content author access to complete this task.

About this task

The following API properties can be customized by any user of the new developer organization with administrator or content author permissions in an organization:
  • Image uploading
  • Tag assignment
  • File attachment
  • Custom field editing

Procedure

To create a new developer organization within the Developer Portal, complete the following steps:

  1. Click the arrow next to your_user_name from the Developer Portal home page.
  2. Select Create organization from the drop-down menu.
  3. In the Organization name field, type the name of the organization, then click Submit.

To assign the required permissions to the users of your organization to whom you want to permit to edit API icons, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to the Developer Portal as an administrator.
  2. Click People on the administrator dashboard.
  3. Select the check box for the user, or users, to whom you want to give new permissions.
  4. Under the UPDATE OPTIONS heading, select the relevant roles from the drop-down list.
    For example, the Content Author role can edit images and content within the Developer Portal.
  5. Click Update.

What to do next

You must ensure that a Product that is published is visible to the internal developer organization that you have created. For more information on how to make a plan visible in API Manager see Changing the availability of a Product