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  • 1.  Portal API Groups vs API Plans

    Posted Jul 22, 2020 06:11 AM
    Newer versions of the API Portal offer the ability to use API Plans. API Plans are a feature that controls how individual APIs can be consumed by developers and applications within an organization. In earlier versions there was the ability to setup API Groups, which fulfilled same functionalities. This is still available, but not compatible with API Plans! API Groups are also no longer available when API Plans are activated.

    Previously we could expand an API Group with new API's resulting all Applications using the API Group would be able to use the new API's at once. This saved a lot of time, since the Application definitions in the Portal did not need to be changed to add the new API's. Is there any way to achieve this using the newer API Plans?

    Cheers,

    Remco Dekker



  • 2.  RE: Portal API Groups vs API Plans

    Posted Aug 24, 2020 09:37 AM
    No one (from Broadcom?) any ideas to share about this topic? What should be the ideal way to achieve adding an API to existing applications? Practically this could involve lots of applications!

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  • 3.  RE: Portal API Groups vs API Plans

    Posted Mar 02, 2021 05:43 AM
    Still struggling with this issue, so giving this a bump.

    Several customers want to migrate to using API Plans, but don't want to give up the functionality offered by API Groups (adding an API to a Group to be used by hundreds of Applications).

    Anyone?

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  • 4.  RE: Portal API Groups vs API Plans

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 03, 2021 02:05 AM
    Edited by William Forsyth Mar 03, 2021 12:14 PM
    Hi Remco, sorry for the slow reply on this enhancement request and I will ask Product Management and get a response for you.  

    Regards, Alex.

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  • 5.  RE: Portal API Groups vs API Plans

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 04, 2021 01:00 AM
    Hi Remco. 

    This feature is under consideration for an upcoming development PI so if you could email me privately the customers requesting this it will help with prioritization and validation with customers.  Our Customer Adoption team will also be adding customers requesting this enhancement to help the Product Management team out.  

    Thanks,  Alex.

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  • 6.  RE: Portal API Groups vs API Plans

    Posted Mar 05, 2021 04:51 AM
    I want to add that we are using api-groups for giving multiple clients the same API's. We like to move to api-groups without losing this functionality. Please make this possible in next release.


  • 7.  RE: Portal API Groups vs API Plans

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 05, 2021 06:51 PM
    Thanks for the feedback and Product Management has been made aware and we will let you know if scheduled for work in a PI.  Usually our Roadmap presentations or User Groups are good to get this information from and give helpful feedback to our Product Team and get status.  This forum is also useful too so thanks!

    Regards, Alex.

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