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Categorize your APIs: Tips and Tricks

categorize your APIs

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There are many reasons it makes sense to split up or categorize your APIs into different sections in the API Portal to improve the user experience for the API Developer.

Categorize your APIs

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Category APIs into the different section is something you can do with an OOTB API Portal in an Upgrade-Safe-Way.

This eight-minute video is showing it:

Hide elements for some users

The API Portal will hopefully become the central entry-point to the API Economy of the customer and therefore I promote to have one API Portal instead of multiple ones.

READ MORE: Configure your API Portal, video explanation.

Some reasons for that:

But to have only one API Portal, it’s important to be able fine-grain control who can see what and it should not be limited to the number of APIs shown. Some examples:

Joomla provides a powerable Access-Control-System, which we couldn’t use in the past, but with API-Portal 7.7 it became possible OOTB.

The following video showcases how to hide a menu-item entry:

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