Leverage collaboration between PowerApps and Azure API Management - No.2 Enable Developer Portal
This post is a part of series for Leverage collaboration between PowerApps and Azure API Management. In previous post, we have enabled our PowerApps to access your Web APIs via API Management. We should enable Developer Portal on Azure API Management to publish your Web API for "citizen developers" widely as next step. No.1: Setup Power Apps "custom connectors" to simply call your Web APIs via API Management No.2: Enable Developer portal for API Management to expose your Web APIs as ecosystem - this post! No.3: Authentication and authorization with Azure AD No.4: Enterprise network usage IT departments can establish ecosystem with your Web APIs and API Management. It requires to enable citizen developers to confirm API specs, publish keys, test or run Web APIs anytime. By publishing your Web APIs on Developer Portal, citizen developers can retrieve your Web API with various applications or flows not only Power Platform. API Management Developer Portal isn't enabled initially, so we will enable it and publish Web APIs widely.Leverage collaboration between PowerApps and Azure API Management - No.1 setup "custom connection"
Power Platform empowers "citizen developers" to accelerate their business. There are lots of demands for their businesses, and there is especially a strong demand for integrating and leveraging existing APIs. While major SaaS services have disclosed their available APIs, most of their existing systems do not disclose the APIs to leverage their systems. Power Platform can leverage existing systems via Web API using "Custom Connectors", but first step for this use case is to expose existing systems as Web API.
