To help you get up to speed with developing applications that use the OpenText Cloud Platform APIs we have created a demo application. The application is developed using VS Code and the OpenText Cloud Developer Tools extension pack.

This extension pack groups several extensions that provide a set of modelers that allow you to create and edit different models in a low-code way. This application handles Contract Approvals and demonstrates how to consume several of the Information Management services.

The following services are used:

• Content Storage Service (CSS) for uploading and storing of documents,
• Content Metadata Service (CMS) for storing document metadata,
• Viewer Service for viewing documents,
• Magellan Risk Guard Service for document analysis, and
• Workflow Service for executing the contract approval process.

Supporting resources for you to get started include a Tutorial overview of the sample app, a detailed step-by-step Tutorial, a User Guide, and a quick reference to Authentication.

As this is a complete end-to-end application building guide, we will be going through the downloading and installation of the required software and source code as part of the different tutorial steps. The only prerequisite to be able to start with the first exercise is that you have signed up for the OpenText Developer trial account, and that this trial has not yet expired. If you do not yet have your own trial account set up, please follow the instructions in this chapter. Also note that although you could theoretically use another OpenText Developer subscription than the aforementioned trial account, we recommend you still set up and use a trial account, as this tutorial has been explicitly constructed in that context. I.e.: differences between the trial account and another subscription might result in you getting stuck, or at least needing to deviate from the exact steps laid out in the tutorial.