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Comment: DOCUMENTATION-6998

Let's take a look at some concepts and terminology that you need to know in order to follow the use cases.

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The diagram below depicts the relationship between the API's visibility and subscription availability:

 

Refer the article Multi Tenant API Management with WSO2 API Manager for examples and real world usage of the above concepts.

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API documentation visibility

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Cross-origin resource sharing  ( CORS ) is a mechanism that allows restricted resources (e.g., fonts, JavaScript) of a Web page to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the resource originated.

The Swagger API Console that is integrated in the API Manager runs as a JavaScript client in the API Store and makes calls from the Store to the API Gateway. Therefore, if you have the API Store and Gateway running on different ports, enable CORS between them. 

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<handlers>
   <handler class="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.gateway.handlers.security.CORSRequestHandler"/>
</handlers>

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OAuth scopes

Scopes enable fine-grained access control to API resources based on user roles. You define scopes to an API's resources. When a user invokes the API, his/her OAuth 2 bearer token cannot grant access to any API resource beyond its associated scopes.

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