Set up Developer Console and Postman

Create a folder on your local machine named Luma Tutorial Assets for files used in the tutorial.

Open the Adobe Developer Console

Log in and confirm that you are in the correct Org

Select Create New Project in Quick Start menu.

In the newly created project, select the Edit Project button

Change the Project Title to Luma Tutorial API Project (add your name to the end, if multiple people from your company are taking this tutorial)

Select Save

Select Add API

Filter the list by selecting Adobe Experience Platform

In list of available APIs, select Experience Platform API and select Next.

Select OAuth Server-to-Server as the credential and select Next.

Select the AEP-Default-All-Users product profile and select Save Configured API

Now your Developer Console project has been created!

In the Try it out section of the page, select Download for Postman and then select OAuth Server-to-Server to download the Postman environment json file. Save the oauth_server_to_server.postman_environment.json in your Luma Tutorial Assets folder.

The Name of your API Credential (Credential in Luma Tutorial API Project)

The Technical Account Email of your credential (this will help the System Admin find the credential)

Log into Adobe Experience Platform

Select Permissions in the left navigation which will take you to the Roles screen

Open the Luma Tutorial Platform role

Select the API Credentials tab

Select Add API Credentials

Find the Credential in Luma Tutorial API Project credential, filtering with the Technical Account Email provided by the tutorial participant, if the list is long

Select the credential

Select Save

Download and install Postman

Open Postman and create a workspace

Import the downloaded json environment file, oauth_server_to_server.postman_environment.json

In Postman, select your environment in the dropdown

Select the icon to view the environment variables:

In Postman, open the Environment Variables

Select the Edit link to the right of the environment name

In the Add new variable field, enter SANDBOX_NAME

Into both value fields, enter luma-tutorial, the name we gave to our sandbox in the previous lesson. If you used a different name for your sandbox, for example, luma-tutorial-ignatiusjreilly, make sure to use that value.

In the Add new variable field, enter TENANT_ID

Switch to your web browser and look up your company’s tenant id by going to Experience Platform’s interface and extracting the portion of the URL after the @ sign. For example, my tenant id is techmarketingdemos but yours is different:

Copy this value and return to the Postman Manage Environments screen

Paste your tenant id into both value fields

In the Add new variable field, enter CONTAINER_ID

Enter global into both value fields

Select Save

Download the Identity Management Service APIs collection to your Luma Tutorial Assets folder

Import the collection into Postman

Select the request oAuth: Request Access Token request and select Send

You should get a 200 OK response with an access token in the response

The access token should be automatically stored as the ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable of your Postman environment.