Catalogs

Catalog is one of the key elements in Valuemation (see also The Catalog Customizer). It is a container (or filter) of business objects (Business object is an entity in an information system bearing some information. In Valuemation, all Valuemation objects are called "business objects") which provides searching and enumerating through all stored objects. Catalog can be perceived either as a sort of a container – or rather as a filter, since various catalogs can contain the same object. Through API, Catalogs are read-only and you can’t create them nor remove them, you can only erase them from a folder. Likewise, through API you are not allowed to change properties of the view of the catalog as you see it in GUI nor change its attributes or its fields’ definitions, you can only do this through GUI. All Catalogs are held by the CATALOGS container.