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Browse a catalogue

A catalogue groups related items — publications, components, organisations, services — into one navigable view. This tutorial opens one catalogue and walks through the list / filter / detail flow.

Goal​

By the end you will have opened a catalogue, narrowed its list with a filter, sorted the rows, searched it by text, and reached the detail page of one item.

Prerequisites​

Steps​

  1. Open Catalogi in the navigation. The list shows the catalogues you can read — each one as a card with title, summary, the kind of items it carries (publications / components / services), the visibility badge, and last-updated time. Click a card.

    Catalogi list with cards

  2. The catalogue detail page opens — a header with the catalogue's name, logo, organisation, and a tab strip: Overview, Publications, Themes, Subscribers, Audit. The Publications tab is selected by default and renders the publication list.

    Catalogue detail page, Publications tab

  3. Use the filter panel on the right to narrow the list — by theme, organisation, publication type, language, publication date range. Filters AND together.

    Filter panel applied

  4. The list opens sorted by Created, newest first, shown by the down arrow on that column. A normal click on a column header, for example Title, Status, Created or Updated, makes that column the only active sort, and clicking the same header again reverses the direction. Because Created is already active, its first click goes straight to oldest first. A third click removes the column sort: the list then falls back to the order the publications were added in, and a reload brings back newest first. The sort covers every publication, not only the rows on screen, and changing it takes you back to page 1. The chosen sort stays in the page address, so it survives paging and reloading, and a colleague who opens a copied link sees the same order. Switch the Cards / Table toggle to compare the dense table layout against the card view.

    Sorted table view

  5. Search by text. On the Publications list, which you reach with the View Publications button on a catalogue's page, type in the search box in the toolbar above the list. The search starts once you stop typing for a moment, not on every keystroke. It matches title, summary, description and the other text fields, ignoring case, and the server searches the whole list rather than only the page on screen. The list, and so the search, covers the publications of every catalogue, not only the catalogue you came from. Brackets, double quotes, * and the upper-case words AND, OR and NOT act as search operators, so a bracket or quote without its partner is not a valid search. A new term takes you back to page 1 and the counter shows how many publications match. Clearing the box brings the full list back. The term stays while you page and switch between cards and table, and it is kept in the address bar (URL), so a reload or a copied link shows the same results. When nothing matches, the list says "No publications found".

  6. Click any row to open the item detail page. The right-hand sidebar shows the item's properties, attached files, related items, and a comments thread.

    Item detail page

Verification​

The catalogue detail page renders without errors, the filter panel narrows the list when you tick a value, the sort arrows in the table header reorder the rows, a term in the search box narrows the list and clearing it brings the full list back, and clicking a row opens its detail page with a populated sidebar.

Common issues​

SymptomFix
Catalogue card opens to "Catalogue not found"The catalogue has been deleted on a federated source — refresh the federation sync (see Manage federation sources) or remove the broken card.
Filter panel is emptyThe catalogue has no items yet — no values to filter on. Add a publication via Publish an item.
Items show "title only", every other column emptyThe publication schema attached to this catalogue has only one indexed property — open the schema in OpenRegister and mark more properties as searchable.

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