What is Catalogs application

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Catalogs application allows you to view, manage, diagnose, and explore the data across all the Catalogs in your account. This feature consists of a suite of tools that covers the entire experience of managing the data integration process in a self-service manner, from the very beginning of feeding data into a Discovery catalog all the way through configuring and verifying the data in our Search and Suggest APIs.

Where can you use Catalogs application

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Here are some examples of how you can use this feature:

• View all Catalogs, including their usage data such as counts and sizes
• View feed data as sent from the source system for debugging
• Choose different configurations for data attributes in Search and Suggest APIs
• Perform common management operations like copying and promoting configurations between Catalogs as well as changing common settings
• View the current and historical job history for modifications to the Catalog
• Search and explore data in the Catalog and see the corresponding Search and Suggest API calls at the same time

Note: Catalogs application supersedes the deprecated DevStudio functionality related to Catalog data such as Feed Status, API Explorer, and Catalogs.

How to use Catalogs

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Use the following guides to understand how this feature works:

• Understanding Feed & Configuring Attributes: This guide walks you through the process of understanding your feed, customizing attributes, and exploring the catalog data using the Catalogs application.
• Promoting Changes & Viewing Jobs: This guide walks you through the process of promoting your configurations, copying configurations from another environment, updating the index, and viewing jobs using the Catalogs application.
• Exploring Catalog Data & Customizing API: This guide illustrates the process of exploring and customizing our APIs as per your needs.

Please note that only the customers using API-based Data Delivery will be able to view feed data in the Catalogs application.

User permissions

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Your Account Administrator can assign you the Catalogs & events admin role that lets you quickly view, manage, diagnose, and explore the data across all the catalogs. Visit this guide to learn how to assign these roles.

Note that there is no read-only role for the Catalogs application; you automatically have read-only access if you have one of the listed Discovery user roles. Read-only access allows you to review feed data and execute search queries.

However, changing attribute configurations or catalog indexing settings requires the Catalogs & events admin role. Alternatively, the Catalogs reindexing admin role can be granted specifically to trigger an index update to reflect changes to Dynamic Categories.

Limitations

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Catalogs application does not support content catalogs. View content catalogs by going to Setup >
Catalogs - content.