A group of projects can be gathered and made available for your clients by adding them to a product. This product will later be associated with a subscription to client(s), which is secured by an API Consumer Key.
In the New API Product dialog box that appears on clicking the Add button, provide a name in the Product ID text field present.
Figure 1: Dialog box to add product with a product ID
Provide the following details under the Configuration tab to configure the product.
Figure 2: Product Configuration attributes
Attribute | Description |
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Product name | Provide a name for the product that helps to identify the behavior of the product. |
Description | Provide a brief description of the product. |
Environment | Choose from the environment from the options in the drop-down. |
Access | Select Private or Public depending on whom to provide access. The products which are marked to be publicly accessible will be made available for subscription in Developer portal. |
Key Approval | Key Approval can be made automatic or manual.
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Quota | Provide the values to set a limit of requests that can be processed for the product. Provide a number and select the minute/hour/day/month from the drop-down |
Click the Edit icon (see the figure above) present at the right side of the Projects in Product section below to add projects to the new product. Select the required project from the Available Projects section that appears on the right side and click the left arrow to move the project to the Projects in Product section.
Figure 3: Editor to add existing projects to the product
Click Save button to apply the changes after adding project(s) to a product (clicking Cancel at this point discards the changes).
By this, the new product gets added with the choice of project(s) and the preferred environment(s).