Overview of Sales Catalog Usages

Each catalog is associated with an attribute called a "usage" that specifies the application areas where it's in use. Typically, it's the Base usage that you use for your catalog. It's the one predefined for the sales applications such as opportunities and leads.

Oracle also supplies a few other usages that are described here.

Here are the predefined usages:

Usage	Description
Base	Used for the sales applications, such as forecasting, territories, opportunities, and leads.
Help Desk HCM	Used for Human Capital Management Cloud.
Loyalty	Used for Loyalty Cloud.
Opportunity Management Alternate Catalog	Used as an alternate for opportunities, for example for Outlook integration.
Partner Management	Used for partner management.

Within a usage, you can set various options and actions, as described in the topic, Overview of Setting Sales Catalog Options and Actions.