Design intent
Make responsibility explicit
Give each catalogue entry a clear name, owner, description and request path. Filter results by the user’s authorized context without implying that discovery itself grants access.
Features / Resource visibility
Resource Catalogue
Help people discover applications, groups and resources that are relevant to their role or available for access request.
Explore the design intent, review practical decisions and validate exact behavior against your deployed configuration.
Why it matters
Make the policy understandable before you automate it.
Users cannot make good access requests if they do not know what resources exist, what they are for or who owns them.
Worked scenario
See it in context
An employee finds a data tool in the catalogue, reads its purpose and requests the corresponding role instead of asking for blanket access.
Boundary to verify
Do not rely on interface alone
Confirm enforcement at the relevant server, API, resource or operational decision point. A hidden button or an informative dashboard is not, by itself, an authorization control.
Practical path
From intent to verified outcome.
Use these stages as a review guide. Exact settings and enforcement points depend on the configured deployment and connected systems.
Define the boundary
Identify the actor, target resource and operation that resource catalogue is meant to govern.
Configure the policy
Give each catalogue entry a clear name, owner, description and request path. Filter results by the user’s authorized context without implying that discovery itself grants access.
Exercise the edge cases
An employee finds a data tool in the catalogue, reads its purpose and requests the corresponding role instead of asking for blanket access. Also test the path that should be denied, deferred or sent for review.
Review the outcome
Check that the resulting state is understandable and that the decision can be investigated later. For audit-enabled operations, confirm the relevant actor and context are captured.
Before rollout
Questions worth answering.
A capability is easier to operate when ownership, failure behavior and verification are defined upfront.
- Confirm the subject, resource and scope affected by resource catalogue.
- Who owns each resource, what information helps the requester, and how does discovery differ from authorization?
- Test the expected path and at least one denied, expired or incomplete path.
- Make ownership, failure handling and review evidence clear before rollout.
This page describes a design approach based on WebFrolic’s documented product model. Verify feature availability and exact behavior in your environment before relying on it for a control requirement.
Related capabilities
Explore what connects to this.
Follow the related areas to understand how this capability fits within identity, access, lifecycle and operations.
Evaluate with your scenario
Start with a concrete workflow.
Share the identities, resource boundary and decision you want to test. The walkthrough can focus on the relevant behavior rather than a generic feature tour.