API Portal 10.5 | webMethods API Portal for Administrators | Managing Communities | Creating a Community
 
Creating a Community
Prerequisite
You must have the privileges of a Portal Administrator.
*To create a community:
1. Click in the right top corner of API Portal window to display the menu options.
2. Click Communities.
3. Click Create.
4. In the Create community page, type the name and description of the community.
5. Add members to the community as follows:
*To add an unregistered user, type the e-mail address of the new user and click . An email is sent to the user.
*To add an already existing user, click . The Select user(s) dialog box opens.
1. To add existing users, select the relevant users and click Add.
To add all users displayed click Add all.
2. Click OK.
The members added are listed under Members in the Create community page.
6. Add User groups to the community as follows:
a. Click .
The Select user group(s) dialog box opens. This lists all the available LDAP user groups that are synchronized in the UMC and can be associated with the community. For more details on synchronizing users and user groups in UMC, see Synchronizing LDAP Users or User Groups with User Management Console
b. Select the required user groups and click Add.
To add all user groups displayed click Add all.
c. Click OK.
The user groups added are listed under User groups in the Create community page.
7. To add APIs to the community, click .
a. In the Add APIs to community dialog box, select the required APIs.
b. Click OK.
The APIs added are listed under APIs in the Create community page
8. Click Apply.
You created a community. This community appears in the list of communities displayed in the Communities page.
After creating a private community containing specific APIs and users, run the following command in ACC console, to make the API documents in the API details page, inaccessible to guest users.
reconfigure apiportalbundle_runnable +JAVA-Dcom.aris.ads.anonymous.access.allowed=false
When a guest user tries to access these documents, the user is prompted to provide user credentials.