# Core API spotlights

## Introduction

Our full core API and associated documentation is available as a Postman collection - please see our [Core API ](broken://pages/EVn1AesQJtjyoIw7p0HZ)page for details. In this section we spotlight some common API functionality, including step-by-step tutorials.

## Pages in this section

* [Initialising a process flow & sending data via the Patchworks API](/product-documentation/developer-hub/patchworks-core-api/core-api-spotlights/initialising-a-process-flow-and-sending-data-via-the-patchworks-api.md)
* [Working with cross-reference lookup API requests ](/product-documentation/developer-hub/patchworks-core-api/core-api-spotlights/working-with-cross-reference-lookup-api-requests.md)


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