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Publish API Products and Plans

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Introduction

In this section, you will learn how to publish the API products and plans to the public-facing portal so that API Consumers can access them.

Prerequisites

Part 1 - Publish an API product

Follow these steps below how to publish an API Product to a catalogue:

  1. From the API Product section, Click an API product to open the details.

    Edit the API Product's metadata

  2. Edit the metadata as needed.

Field Description
Catalogue display name This is the name that will be displayed in the external catalogue.
Featured API Product Tick this option if you want the API Product to appear on the homepage under “Featured products”.
Description Short description about what this API Product is.
Content This section appears on the API Product overview page, the rich text editor enables you to add more information about the API Product e.g. use cases, features, etc.
Image An image can be added to the API Product. Supported formats are JPG and PNG.
Organisation ID The org id is required in order to connect to Tyk as a provider. It can be found in the user profile within the Tyk Dashboard.
Catalogues Select an existing catalogue that this product should be available from.
App registration configs An experimental feature, it works only for oAuth2.0-enabled APIs
API resources This section lists all APIs available within this product, you can add OAS documentation for each API.
  1. Select a catalogue to publish the API product. If you want to create a custom catalogue.

    Edit the API Product's metadata

  2. Navigate to Catalogues to view the available catalogue.

    Edit the API Product's metadata

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Part 2 - Publish a plan

In order for developers to be able to request access to an API Product and retrieve credentials, a minimum of one plan needs to be available within the same catalogue as the API Product.

Follow these steps below to knowhow to publish a plan:

  1. From the Plans section, select a plan to open the details.

    Edit the plan's metadata

  2. Edit the metadata as needed

Field Description
Catalogue display name This is the name that will be displayed in the external catalogue.
Plan allowance This section describes what quota and limit is set for this plan. These values can be updated within the ‘policy section’ in the Tyk dashboard.
Catalogues Select an existing catalogue that this product should be available from.
Auto-approve provisioning request Under plan settings, you can choose to select this option which means whenever an API-consumer requests access to an API product(s) using this plan, it will be approved automatically.
JWT Scope An experimental feature, it works only for oAuth2.0 enabled APIs
  1. Click Save changes. The plan will now be available within selected catalogue(s).