Catalog Report
Reference Guide — Understanding and Exploring the Metadata Catalog
Module: Discovery Module › Catalog Report | Last updated: August 2026
Contents
- Overview
- Finding Your Way Around
- Overview Tab — The Summary Tiles
- The Data Lifecycle Funnel
- Trends
- The Vendor and Business Object Tables
- Explorer Tab — Searching and Browsing
- Object-Level Summary
- Table Detail
- Exporting Reports
- Quick Reference
1. Overview
Catalog Report is a read-only dashboard over the vendor metadata catalog — the same catalog you build and maintain in Catalog Admin. Where Catalog Admin is about changing the catalog, Catalog Report is about understanding it: how big it is, how complete and well-described it is, and how much of it is actually being used across OnCoor.
It answers questions like: How many vendors and objects do we have? What share of columns have descriptions? Which vendor versions are thin on relationships? Which business objects have already flowed into synthesis, discovery or mapping? You can also drill all the way down to a single table to see its columns, relationships and history — and export any object as an Excel workbook or PDF.
What you can do here
- See catalog-wide totals and quality scores at a glance.
- Track how the catalog is growing over time.
- Compare vendors, versions and business objects side by side.
- Explore down to an individual table's columns and connections.
- Export an object or a whole business object as Excel or PDF.
WHERE TO FIND IT — Catalog Report has its own entry in the left navigation rail, listed just below Catalog Admin. It has two tabs: Overview and Explorer.
IT'S READ-ONLY — Nothing on this page changes the catalog. It's a reporting view, so you can share it and explore freely without any risk of altering data. To make changes, use Catalog Admin.
2. Finding Your Way Around
The page has two tabs:
| Tab | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Overview | The dashboard — headline totals, quality scores, a lifecycle funnel, growth trends, and breakdowns by vendor and by business object. |
| Explorer | A search-and-browse view for drilling into a specific business object or table, with exports. |
3. Overview Tab — The Summary Tiles
The top of the Overview tab is a row of tiles giving the state of the whole catalog at a glance:
| Tile | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Vendors | Number of vendor systems, with the number of versions beneath. |
| Objects | Total objects (tables), with the number of business objects beneath. |
| Attributes | Total columns across the catalog. |
| Relationships | Total relationships, split into foreign keys (FK) and check references. |
| Description coverage | The percentage of columns that have a description, with the raw counts beneath. |
| AI-enriched | The percentage of columns whose description was written by AI. |
| PK coverage | The percentage of objects that have a primary key defined. |
| With relationships | The percentage of objects that have at least one relationship. |
| Origin | How many objects are bundled (shipped) versus user-added. |
| Adoption | How many objects have been used downstream — synthesized, discovered and mapped. |
Together these tiles tell you both the size of the catalog and its quality — how complete the descriptions, keys and relationships are — and how much of it is actually being put to work.
4. The Data Lifecycle Funnel
Below the tiles, the Data lifecycle funnel shows how catalog objects progress through OnCoor's stages, as a set of horizontal bars with a count for each stage. It's a quick way to see where objects concentrate — for example, plenty catalogued but comparatively few carried through to later stages — which helps you spot where attention is needed.
5. Trends
If the catalog has been snapshotted more than once, a Trend panel appears with small sparkline charts showing how key measures have moved over time: total Objects, Described %, AI-enriched %, and Synthesized count. Each sparkline shows the shape of the change, with the starting and latest values printed beneath. This is the easiest way to confirm the catalog is growing and its quality is improving.
TRENDS NEED HISTORY — The Trend panel only shows once at least two snapshots exist. On a new or lightly used catalog it may not appear yet.
6. The Vendor and Business Object Tables
Two tables at the bottom of the Overview tab break the catalog down.
By vendor / version lists every vendor version with its origin (Bundled or User-added), object and attribute counts, description and enrichment percentages, foreign-key count, and when it was last loaded. Use it to compare versions and spot any that are incomplete or out of date.
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Vendor / Version | The vendor system and its version. |
| Origin | Bundled (shipped) or User-added (uploaded via Catalog Admin). |
| Objects / Attributes | How many tables and columns the version contains. |
| Described / Enriched | Percentage of columns with a description, and the share written by AI. |
| FKs | Number of foreign-key relationships. |
| Last loaded | When the version was last imported or updated. |
By business object breaks the catalog down by business object instead, showing its vendor and version, its industry (or Core if it's cross-industry), and its table, attribute, description and enrichment figures. Where a friendly name has been set in Business Object Names, it's shown with the raw key beneath it.
7. Explorer Tab — Searching and Browsing
The Explorer tab is for finding and inspecting a specific object. On the left is a search box and a browsable tree; the right-hand side shows the detail for whatever you select.
Browsing — When the search box is empty, the left panel is a drill-down tree: Vendor → Version → Business Object → Table. Click any level to expand it and load the level beneath. Each entry shows a count in brackets, and industry-specific items carry a small amber industry tag.
Searching — Start typing (for example, Customer, Business Partner, or a table name like tccom110) and the tree is replaced by matching results, grouped the same way and expanded automatically. If there are a lot of matches, only the first are shown and a note asks you to refine — so a more specific search gives a tighter list.
From either the tree or the search results you can click a business object to open its object-level summary, or a table to open its full detail.
8. Object-Level Summary
Clicking a business object opens its summary on the right — a roster of the tables that make up that object, plus group totals. At the top you'll see the object's name, its vendor, the number of member tables, and its industry tag if it has one, along with Excel and PDF export buttons.
Beneath the header, a line gives the group totals: total columns, how many are AI-enriched, and the number of outgoing and incoming relationships. The table then lists each member table with its business name, column count, AI-enriched count, and relationship counts (outgoing / incoming). Click any row to open that table's full detail.
9. Table Detail
Clicking a table opens its full detail, made up of several panels:
Header — The table's name, its origin (Delivered/Bundled or User-added), any vendor classification and industry tag, the business object(s) it belongs to, and its business name, vendor and version. Excel and PDF export buttons sit here too.
Management lineage — A short story of the object: where it came from, how many of its columns are AI-enriched, its relationship counts, and any downstream activity in other modules (for example, when it was synthesized, discovered or mapped, by whom and when). If nothing downstream has happened yet, it says so.
Connections — The object's neighbours shown as chips: → Object for tables this one points at (outgoing) and Object → for tables that point at it (incoming). Clicking an outgoing neighbour jumps to it. Below the chips, an Outgoing table lists each linking column and what it references.
Columns — The full column list: name, data type, whether it's a primary key (🔑) or foreign key (FK), whether it's non-nullable (NN), and its description.
10. Exporting Reports
Both the object-level summary and the table detail offer Excel and PDF downloads, using the buttons in their headers.
| Export | What you get |
|---|---|
| Table → Excel | A multi-sheet workbook for the single table. |
| Table → PDF | A formatted report for the single table. |
| Business object → Excel | A workbook with a group-summary sheet plus one sheet per member table. |
| Business object → PDF | A report with a summary followed by a page per member table. |
These are handy for sharing a snapshot of an object with people who don't use OnCoor directly, or for keeping an offline record. The file downloads straight to your computer.
11. Quick Reference
A fast lookup for the most common actions.
| I want to… | Do this |
|---|---|
| See catalog-wide totals and quality scores | Catalog Report → Overview tab → summary tiles |
| See where objects sit in the lifecycle | Overview → Data lifecycle funnel |
| Check whether the catalog is growing | Overview → Trend panel |
| Compare vendor versions | Overview → By vendor / version table |
| Compare business objects | Overview → By business object table |
| Find a specific object or table | Explorer tab → search box |
| Browse the catalog by vendor and version | Explorer → drill-down tree (empty search) |
| See a business object's member tables | Explorer → click a business object |
| Inspect a table's columns and relationships | Explorer → click a table |
| Download an object as Excel or PDF | Open it in Explorer → Excel / PDF buttons |
Source: OnCoor Discovery Module product documentation, written for end users. For the latest screens and options, always refer to the in-app interface.