Creating a Portal API User

Overview

Overview on enabling portal API users.

Portal API User

If you are using Sugar Professional or Corporate, and would like to build a custom portal using the Portal API, you will need to create a Portal API User to communicate with the Sugar server.

You can enable this functionality as follows:

1. Add the following parameter to ./config_override.php:

$sugar_config['enable_web_services_user_creation'] = true;

2. Log into Sugar as the administrator and navigate to Admin > User Management.
3. From the Users navigation tab, select “Create Portal API User”.

Once you have created the portal API user, you pass this users credentials to the portal API to connect.