Understanding API Hub Navigation
This section explains the user interface (UI) elements in SmartBear API Hub. After you log in, you will go to the API Hub Home page, which will provide you with an overview of API Hub features.
User Interface (UI) Elements
UI Element | Description |
|---|---|
API Hub Features | Design - An API development tool providing teams with a single source of truth throughout the API lifecycle. It focuses on API design and maintenance with collaboration and version control tools. Portal - A tool to enhance how you create your documentation. This feature provides a comprehensive array of elements to develop robust API documentation. Contract Testing - A contract testing tool designed to reduce the complexity of testing microservices at scale, ensuring that integrations work as expected without manual overhead. Explore - An API exploration tool that allows teams to visualize API data quickly and integrate faster, enhancing the API design and testing phases. Test - Automate API testing, validate functionality across environments, and integrate seamlessly into CI/CD workflows to ensure reliable and scalable APIs. |
Manage Org | Go to SmartBear Admin to view your organization, members, and plans. Administrators can invite and manage users and admins, assign licenses, manage subscriptions and billing, and request to delete the organization. |
Documentation and Support | Provides guides and support links to help users navigate API development challenges and troubleshoot issues effectively. |
Organization | An organization (org) is the top-level entity for managing members, subscriptions, billing, and license assignments. Members become users when they are assigned active subscription seats; see Organizations. |
API Hub Support Center | The API Hub Support Center includes resources for API Hub for Design, Explore, Portal, Test, and Contract Testing. Each feature has a dedicated stand-alone page with tutorials, videos, community, and technical documentation. |
 | In the API Hub Home drop-down menu, each option represents API Hub Features. API Hub Home - Clicking the API Hub Home navigates you to the API Hub Home page. SmartBear Admin - Clicking this icon navigates you to SmartBear Admin. |
 | User Menu include: Email - This section displays your email address to ensure you are logged into the correct account. Profile - This option lets you view and update your SmartBear ID profile, including your email, phone number, company, and social logins enabled. Learn more here. Log Out - This option allows you to sign out of your account. It will log you out of all SmartBear products that use SmartBear ID. |
 | The navigation menu links to the Documentation and API Hub Terms and Conditions. |