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title: Administering API groups
description: This topic discusses administrative tasks associated with your API groups.
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canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingintelligence/5.1/pingintelligence_dashboard/pingintelligence_administering_api_groups.html
revdate: April 3, 2024
section_ids:
  before-you-begin: Before you begin
  about-this-task: About this task
  creating-and-deleting-api-groups: Creating and deleting API groups
  steps: Steps
  adding-deleting-and-moving-apis: Adding, deleting, and moving APIs
  steps-2: Steps
  merging-a-user-defined-api-group-into-the-default-api-group: Merging a user-defined API group into the default API group
  steps-3: Steps
  searching-or-sorting-api-groups-and-apis: Searching or sorting API groups and APIs
  steps-4: Steps
---

# Administering API groups

This topic discusses administrative tasks associated with your API groups.

## Before you begin

Make sure you have admin user privileges to administer the API groups in the dashboard.

## About this task

You can perform the following administrative operations on API groups:

* [Creating and deleting API groups](pingintelligence_creating_deleting_api_groups.html)

* [Adding, deleting, and moving APIs](pingintelligence_adding_deleting_moving_apis.html)

* [Merging a user-defined API group into the default API group](pingintelligence_merging_api_group.html)

* [Searching or sorting API groups and APIs](pingintelligence_searching_sorting_apis.html)

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|   | A successful execution of these operations is followed by a success notification. Click the **Refresh** button on the top-right corner to reflect the changes made to the API groups. |

## Creating and deleting API groups

### Steps

* To create an API group, click**Create New API group** on the top-right corner. Fill in the following details for the new API group, and click**Save**:

  * **Group name**: The display name of the API group.

  * **Group description**: Additional information about the API group.

  * **Custom attribute key**: The metadata key for the API group.

  * **Custom attribute value**: Metadata about the API group. This can be used in search operations.

  ![Screen capture of PingIntelligence create new API group popup window showing.](_images/bye1640167393569.png)

* To edit an API group, click the **Pencil** ![nua1601190800641](_images/nua1601190800641.png) icon. You can modify the metadata of the group.

* To delete an API group, click the **Delete** ![flm1601182421248](_images/flm1601182421248.png) icon on the bottom-right corner. APIs in the group that are not part of any other API groups, will be added to the default API group. You cannot delete the default API group.

## Adding, deleting, and moving APIs

You can add, delete, or move an API from an API group.

### Steps

* To add an API to group, click **Add APIs** on the top-right corner of the API group. Select the API from the **Add APIs to the Group** pop-up and click **Submit**. You can select more than one API and add them to a group in one instance.

  ![its1601183586643](_images/its1601183586643.png)

* To delete an API from an API group, click **Move API**. Select **Delete API** in the **Move/Delete from the Group** pop-up. Now click **Submit**. After an API which does not belong to any other group is deleted from a group, then it automatically gets added to the default group.

  ![tqe1601259242494](_images/tqe1601259242494.png)

* To move an API to a different API group, click **Move API**. Select **Move API** in the **Move/Delete from the Group** pop-up. Now select the target API group and click **Submit**. You can move the API to more than one target API groups. Once the API is moved it'll no longer be part of that API group.

  ![fck1601188700848](_images/fck1601188700848.png)

## Merging a user-defined API group into the default API group

You can merge a user-defined API group into the default API group, by completing the following steps:

### Steps

1. Click **Settings → API grouping settings**.

2. From the **Select group** list, select the API group that you want to move to the default group.

3. Click **Save**.

   ![PingIntelligence API grouping settings](_images/yoz1640173355917.png)

## Searching or sorting API groups and APIs

### Steps

* You can search for a specific API in an API group or across multiple API groups. For quick and easy retrieval, when you search at the API group level, you can filter your search based on **Group name**, **Attribute**, or **API**. When API is chosen for filtering, only non-empty API groups are loaded.

* You can sort API groups based on**Group name**, **Group creation date**, or **Last modified date**.

![PingIntelligence API groups sort](_images/bog1640174026568.png)

* You can also sort the APIs within an API group based on**Creation date** or **Training start date**.

![PingIntelligence API grouping - APIs sort](_images/iho1640174184806.png)