Understanding API Hub Navigation

This section explains the user interface (UI) elements in SmartBear API Hub. After you log in, you will go to API Hub homepage, which will provide you with an overview of API Hub features.

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User Interface (UI) Elements

Table 2. API Hub 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.

SmartBear Admin icon

You can go to SmartBear Admin to see 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.

Subscription details

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This screen displays the subscription details, including a summary of the subscription plan, the number of seats, and an overview of the capabilities.

App Switcher

App Switcher

The app switcher allows you to navigate between API Hub Features.

API Hub Home - Clicking API Hub Home navigates you back to API Hub homepage.

SmartBear Admin - Clicking this icon navigates you to SmartBear Admin.

User Account

User Account 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. For more information, refer to the SmartBear ID documentation.

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.

Chat Icon

Click to chat with support. Enter your name and email address to start the chat to get a quick response to your development challenges and troubleshoot issues effectively.

Help

The navigation menu links to the knowledge base and documentation. Click the Support link to navigate to the Support Center, which 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.



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