The 'Public' mode allows every organization to subscribe to the APIs and API products within the environment.
In the first tab 'Subscribe Management' you can set the general access mode of the environment for subscriptions.
Restricted mode only allows a selected list of organizations. If you select this mode, two tables appear in which you can manage the organizations. Only organizations of the types 'Consuming & Publishing' and 'Consuming' are displayed in the tables. You can add organisations within the lower table using "Assign". Users of this organisation can then subscribe to API products from this environment.
Effect on the developer portal: Public: The APIs and API products can be subscribed by everyone. Private: Only users from the selected organization can subscribe. Furthermore, the selection for the server URL in the API 'Try it out!' screen is only displayed to the permitted organizations.
Publish Management
In the second tab 'Publish Management' you can set the general access mode of the environment for deploying APIs and API products.
The 'Public' mode allows any organization to deploy APIs and API products to this environment.
Restricted mode only allows a selected list of organizations. If you select this mode, two tables appear in which you can manage the organizations. Only organizations of the types 'Consuming & Publishing' and 'Consuming' are displayed in the tables.