Viewing and Managing Templates in the Catalog

If you select the Template from the Kind dropdown, a catalog list of templates opens in the catalog table with different columns. There are Common Searching and Managing Features in the Catalog that can help you find the template you want to manage.

You can search the key information of a template by using the following columns.

Template Name

This column shows the list of templates present in the catalog. Click any template name from the column to view the following details.

Service Overview - The overview tab is segmented into the following details.

  • About - You can view the source repository of the template in the View Source and technical documentation in the View TechDocs. To start creating a component using the selected template, click Launch Template. This takes you to the template form. See Developing a New Component Using a Template.

    To edit the About section, click the Edit Metadata icon. This takes you to the source repository location of the template, where you can make the changes. To view the changed metadata of a template, click the Schedule Entity Refresh icon. To view owner information in detail, click the owner name.

  • Relations - This is a non-exhaustive and read-only list of relations between the existing entity and other entities. Each relation has a source, a target, and a type that shows what relation the source has with the target. Relations are commonly bidirectional, so that there is a pair of relation types each describing one direction of the relation.

    In Relations, you can see the simple view of template relations with other entities. To view the elaborated relations of the template, click View Graph. Use the search filters like max depth, kinds, relations, directions, and curve to find the entity relations. Use the Simplified or Merge Relation toggle switches to see the simple or complex relations view. You can scroll to zoom in and zoom out and move around the relations diagram. Click to change the active node. To navigate the entity, press the Shift+Click button.

  • Links - You can view development resources, such as service URL, demos, code editor links, and more, that can help you learn more about the template.
  • Has Subcomponents - You can view an entity reference to another component of which the template is a part.