Setup a service
Overview
Sitefinity CMS uses RESTful services API that allows you to create and consume content from your website using the OData protocol. The main benefits of using these services are the following:
- Support for multiple RESTful API services
- User-friendly UI for configuration of the services
- Control over the set of content types that are exposed
- Option to allow anonymous access per profile or type
- Easy access to related data
- Auto-generated API reference
- Support for saved queries and calculated fields
Supported content
You can include in your RESTfull service the following types of content:
- News items
- Blogs and Blog posts
- Events and Calendars
- Images and Image libraries
- Videos and Video libraries
- Documents and Document libraries
- Lists and List items
- Comments
- Dynamic content
- Shared content blocks
- Flat and Hierarchical taxonomies
- Folders
- Pages
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Create a RESTful API service
Create a web service in Sitefinity CMS backend and configure its permissions and settings.
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