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Creating a Product and Product Plans

Creating a Product

Actor: Portal Administrator, Product Manager

To create a product:

1.	Log in to the Management Portal as a portal administrator.

2.	Click the Products tab and click Create New Product.

The Create New Product interface appears.

3.	Enter information to identify the product:

−	Name of the Product  Enter a name for the product.

−	Description  Enter a description for the product.

−	Product Category  Select a product category from the drop-down list.

−	Upload product thumbnail  Upload an image to display the product thumbnail.

4.	To associate the product with APIs, click Choose and from the list of APIs that appears, select one or more APIs for your product. Then click Save.

5.	Enter information for the product documentation:

−	Inline documentation  Enter the inline documentation text for the product, if any.

−	Attached Documentation Files  Click Add files to add one or more documentation files for the product and then click Start upload to upload the selected files.

−	Product-specific terms & conditions  Enter the text for product-specific terms and conditions, if any.

6.	Click Save to create the product.

Creating a Product Plan

Actor: Portal Administrator

To create a product plan:

1.	Log in to the API Manager Portal as a partner administrator.

2.	Click the Products tab and select an existing product from the list of products. The product details page appears.

3.	Click the Plans tab and then click Add Plan.

The Create new plan interface appears.

4.	Specify the following information to set up the plan:

−	Plan name  Enter a name for the plan.

−	Level  Specifies the ordering of the plan in the list of product plans, where the plans are placed in the increasing order of the level. Choose a level from the drop-down menu: custom, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, and Level 5.

Once created, custom plans are not displayed on the UI. However, the custom plans can be selected when creating a subscription.

−	Subscriptions  After you create the plan, you can add a subscription to it.

−	Price or keyword  Enter a price or a keyword to be highlighted for the plan.

−	Contact  Contact for the plan.

−	Product  Displays the product name for which the plan is to be created.

−	Auto subscribed  Select Yes to create a plan that can be auto-provisioned.

−	Plan details  Enter the details of the plan.

−	Rate Limit  Specifies the number of requests to the API allowed per second.

−	Quota Limit Specifies the number of requests to the API allowed per day for products using the plan.

−	Description Enter a description for the plan.

5.	Click Save to save the plan and add it to the selected product.

The newly created plan appears on the product page for the product.

After creating a product and adding a plan, you must associate an environment with the product. See Associating a Basepath with a Product for details.

Associating a Basepath with a Product

After you save a product definition, on the Product page for the product, follow these steps to associate a basepath with the product:

1.	Click Choose.

The Choose dialog appears.

2.	Do one of the following:

•	To search for an environment, enter all or part of an environment name in the search field and then click Search.

•	Click on an environment in the list of available environments.

The Product page appears and the IP address of the selected environment appears.

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