Overview
Who should take this course?
This course is for anyone in a technical role who wants to get hands-on experience as a community administrator using API Community Manager.
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of APIs, REST, and HTTP
When you complete this course, you will be able to:
- Engage API developers with API Community Manager.
- Customize and personalize developer experiences based on API consumer needs.
- Auto-populate interactive documentation from Anypoint Exchange.
- Manage member approval and support community members with developer forums.
Lessons and Topics
Creating a community
- Navigate API Community Manager and Community Builder
- Create a community
- Preview a community and ensure that it appears correctly on different devices
- Publish a community so that it is accessible to the community members
Customizing API communities
- Style a community using themes and CSS
- Use Community Builder to create, edit, and customize community pages and components
- Configure standard Lightning components to easily build responsive applications for any device
- Author, organize, and publish CMS content within a community
Publishing APIs to a community
- Add APIs to a community from Anypoint Exchange
- Manage API version visibility, settings, and branding
- Configure API Community Manager Lightning components to access and interact with APIs from API Community Manager
- Publish new API versions and API groups in API Community Manager
- Manage contracts from Anypoint Platform
Managing community members
- Configure user registration and approval
- Moderate and approve/reject members
- Set up and moderate community forums
- Target members with fine-grain visibility rules for APIs
Setup requirements
- A computer with a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768
- Unrestricted internet access to port 80 (with > 5Mbps download and > 2Mbps upload)
- The latest version of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge
- Advanced REST Client (or any other REST client application)