Publishing Service Assets to API Portal

To publish a service asset to API Portal

1. In CentraSite Business UI, access the Advanced Search panel in one of the following ways:

Click the Browse link in the upper-left corner of the menu bar.

Click the Search icon next to the Scope list. The default search scope is Assets.

This displays a list of assets in the Search Results page.

2. In the Additional Search Criteria list, select Asset Types.

3. To search for the assets of type, service, click Choose.

4. In the Choose Asset Types dialog box, select the Assets button, and follow these steps:

a. Click the chevron next to Assets button.

b. In the list of asset types, select any of the following types: Virtual Service, Virtual REST Service, Virtual OData Service.

c. Click OK.

5. Click the service you want to publish to the gateway.

This opens the Service Details page. Also, the actions bar displays a set of actions that are available for working with the displayed service.

6. On the actions bar of the Service Details page, click Publish.

This opens the Publish dialog box.

7. Select API Portal from Gateway type drop-down list.

The default is set to API Gateway.

8. (Optional). In the Sandbox list, select a sandbox category that classifies the endpoint of the service for publishing to API Portal :

The Sandbox list includes:

If you choose...	CentraSite displays...
Development	Instances of a specific gateway whose endpoints are classified by the Development category.
Production	Instances of a specific gateway whose endpoints are classified by the Production category.
Test	Instances of a specific gateway whose endpoints are classified by the Test category.
All Sandboxes	Instances of a specific gateway whose endpoints are classified by any of the above mentioned categories.

The default is set to All Sandboxes.

9. In the Select an API Portal and communties to publish column, select a API Portal instance and its corresponding communities to which you want to publish the virtual services.

a. Select one or multiple communities available for a particular API Portal.

The default is set to Public Community. Any new community assigned to the service overwrites the existing community assignments.

10. In the Select an API Gateway and endpoints to expose column, select one or more API Gateway instances and its corresponding endpoints through which you want to expose the virtual services in API Portal.

Note:
The Select an API Gateway and endpoints to expose column displays the API Gateway instances to which you have already published the service.

11. Click Publish.

A Publish Inprogress popup displays the progress state of publishing the service to selected API Portal.

If the publish process logs failures, identify and correct the failure and then try publishing the service again.