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Manage developers

Applies to enterprise.

Learn how to manage API developers on the Adobe Admin Console.

Adobe I/O is the platform for developers in your organization looking to integrate, extend, or create apps and experiences based on Adobe's products and technologies. Developers use it to build on top of Creative CloudDocument Cloud, Experience Cloud, or other Adobe API products.

Your developers on Adobe I/O build API credentials with Adobe API products. These API credentials are a pipeline from external apps and services to the Adobe API.

  1. First, you add developers (individually or in bulk) to product profiles of products that include API access on the Admin Console. You can also set auto-assignment rules to automatically provision access to qualified users based on set assignment rules.
    This provides your developers with the permissions to create API credentials.
  2. Next, your developers add the required API credentials on Adobe I/O.
  3. Finally, you add these API credentials to product profiles again on the Admin Console.

On the Admin Console, you can also edit user (or developer) accounts to add or remove them from product profiles. You can also remove developers from product profiles.

Note:

The Developer account type is only available for a specific set of Adobe products.  A Developer account can be added to the Admin Console, only for products that allow this type of account, and the Developer account type is available on the Admin console.

Add developers

As an administrator, the Admin Console allows you to create and manage developer accounts. When you add developers to product profiles on the Admin Console, you provide these developers with access privileges to create API credentials (on Adobe I/O). Also, on Adobe I/O, developers can associate the API credentials they create with product profiles, but only the product profiles to which the developer has access.

When API calls are made from the API credentials that a developer creates, they are executed with the API credentials of the associated product profiles.

Manage developers

Manage API credentials

When you add developers to product profiles, these developers then have the required permissions to create API credentials on Adobe I/O.

For such an API credential to be used, it needs to be associated with one or more product profiles. This is required so that when API calls are made using an API credential, they execute with the permissions based on the associated product profile or profiles.

Administrators can manage the access granted to an application which uses an API credential by setting or changing the product profiles associated with said API credential.

For example, there might be two product profiles, Test and Production, which grant access and permissions consistent with testing an application and with running the application in a production environment, respectively. The developer could be granted access only to the Test product profile and the API credential is set up by the developer to use that product profile. Once the application is tested and ready for production use, a System or Product Profile admin on the Admin Console would remove the API credential from the Test profile and add it to the Production product profile. The developer no longer has the ability to manage the API credential from the adobe.io console once this change is made.

Usually, developers, are not given admin privileges on the Admin Console.

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