What tools were used to create Apigee documentation (docs.apigee.com) that can be leveraged to create similar documentation in a Developer Portal?

[#1]

Hello @Floyd Jones!

Is there a guide or other documentation that outlines the tools and techniques used to craft Apigee's docs.apigee.com documentation? Drupal modules that we can incorporate into our Developer Portal and such?

Background:

I am helping build the documentation portion of a large Developer Portal deployment for my company's API. We want to include robust conceptual API documentation alongside SmartDocs reference content in a manner similar to the way docs.apigee.com hosts and delivers conceptual content alongside the SmartDocs reference material.

[anilsr]

@Daniel Chad Brotherton ,

Welcome to Apigee Community 🙂 Do you mean left sidebar navigation in specific? Apigee developer portal out of the box supports smartdocs. Are you looking for anything specific that you would like to implement ?

[anilsr]

Dear @Daniel Chad Brotherton,

Just on a quick research, here is what I have found,

• Left Side Bar - Menu Navigation
  • Implemented using Accordion Menu Module
• API Document Pages
  • Implemented using Node Book Type
  • Using core Drupal Book module
  • Different Content Types, For Example, Policies are rendered using Different Content Type
• SmartDoc Pages
  • Implemented using Apigee SmartDocs Module.
  • Overview Pages - Panels module

Custom CSS, Javascript. You can implement same in your developer portal with Drupal Expertise.

[#4]

So the API conceptual document pages themselves are not implemented with SmartDocs but are Drupal Book module nodes. I am new to Drupal so this is very helpful to me. Thank you Anil!

[anilsr]

Yes, Most of the docs pages are implemented using book content type & custom content types, smartdocs feature.

For Example, See screenshot of page source html which says node-type-book for a doc page.

[shawkyfoda]

Hi Anil,

As a restriction from customer side, as there is no internet connection, could we have an offline version of the apigee docs ?