Catalog
The Catalog is where you browse reusable building blocks and starters for Deployments, Jobs, and governed provider capabilities.
It can include:
- Local items bundled with the server or created in your workspace.
- Portal items (licensed) from a shared catalog that you can install and keep up to date.
Catalog item types
Section titled “Catalog item types”Provider Packs
Section titled “Provider Packs”Provider Packs are versioned packages for reusable provider capabilities. A Pack can combine jobs, workflows, triggers, credential requirements, readiness checks, policy, and execution evidence.
Use a Pack when you need a governed provider workflow rather than only a protocol component or documentation recipe. Read Provider Packs before installation so you can distinguish authored, published, installed, configured, ready, executed, and externally confirmed states.
Workflows
Section titled “Workflows”Workflows are end-to-end graphs (DAGs) composed of blueprints.
Use them when you want a multi-job system. In the Catalog, filter to Workflows and click Plan & register to create a deployment from a selected workflow version.
Perspectives
Section titled “Perspectives”Perspectives are starter workflow skeletons with intentionally unbound slots.
Use them when you want a standard architecture but still need to choose concrete building blocks for your environment. Perspectives are not deployable as-is: start from a perspective, complete bindings in the Workflows editor, publish, then run Plan & register.
Blueprints
Section titled “Blueprints”Blueprints are reusable deployment building blocks (modules). They can be used in two ways:
- Import them into a workflow while authoring, or
- Click Plan & register to create a deployment directly from a blueprint (useful for “single-module” systems).
Jobs (library jobs)
Section titled “Jobs (library jobs)”Jobs are managed job snippets from the catalog. They are useful as known-good single-job starting points.
In the Catalog, clicking Plan & register on a Job takes you to the “new job” flow with the job content prefilled.
Common actions
Section titled “Common actions”- Search + filters: use the tabs (Workflows / Perspectives / Blueprints / Jobs / Provider Packs) and filters (Source, Availability, tags) to narrow down choices.
- Preview: preview graphs for workflows/perspectives/blueprints, and preview job content for library jobs.
- Details: open the details drawer to see provenance, tags, version, and related items.
- Plan & register:
- For workflows/blueprints: starts a new deployment.
- For perspectives: starts a workflow-authoring flow so you can complete bindings before deployment.
- For jobs: starts a new job draft in the Jobs UI.
For a Provider Pack, use Start setup or Resume setup to work through its declared prerequisites. Review its requirements and readiness information before enabling any operation.
Portal vs local
Section titled “Portal vs local”If your deployment is licensed, you can switch Source → Portal to browse shared catalog content. Portal items may be available as:
- Portal-only: not installed locally yet.
- Installed: installed into your server.
- Update available: a newer version exists in the portal.
These states describe Catalog installation, not runtime readiness. An installed item can still require credentials, provider consent, worker capabilities, network access, or other configuration before it is serviceable.
- Learn how workflows are authored and versioned in Workflows.
- Learn how governed provider capabilities are packaged in Provider Packs.
- Learn how deployments are planned/applied in Deployment Manager.
- If you only need a single job, start with Jobs.