The catalog stores the BI Publisher objects, such as reports, data models, and style templates.
Use the catalog to locate objects and perform tasks specific to those objects.
The following image shows the Oracle BI Publisher.
Use the Catalog page to locate objects in the catalog and perform tasks specific to those objects. The objects and options that are available to you are determined by your system privileges and the permissions assigned to individual folders and objects.
You can use the Catalog page to perform more specialized tasks such as:
Setting object-level permissions
Downloading and uploading objects
Exporting and importing catalog translations
For more information about the functions that you can perform in the catalog, see Overview of the BI Publisher Folders.