Catalogs and classifiers

Catalog is the platform definition for a governed hierarchy. A Classifier is the currently supported Catalog kind for giving records reusable hierarchical categories such as product area, department, capability, region, or service family.

Classifier nodes are called categories, not folders. A category can be selected even when it has child categories. The logical Classifier root is only a navigation point and is never stored as a record value.

How records participate

A record type participates through an explicit single-value Classifier field bound to one Classifier. Several fields can use the same Classifier, and a record type can use several Classifiers when it needs independent classification axes.

The record stores the selected category identity. Moltaro resolves its current name and breadcrumb from the Classifier tree. Moving or renaming a category therefore updates the current display without rewriting every record. Audit history keeps the full breadcrumb captured when the field changed, so later tree changes do not rewrite historical evidence.

Browsing a Classifier

A Classifier can be added to a configured user menu. Its runtime page shows the category tree and one globally paged list containing records from all record types that use that Classifier.

• At the logical root, the page shows all classified records.
• For a category, Category shows direct assignments and Entire branch also includes descendants.
• Search, record-type filtering, common presentation sorting, and pagination work across the mixed result.
• Records the user cannot view appear only as restricted entries and do not reveal names, numbers, subtitles, or classification assignments.

Users with the required record and field update access can add records through the shared record picker or remove one concrete Classifier-field assignment. These actions use the ordinary record update flow, including validation, concurrency checks, formulas, side effects, and audit history.

Access boundaries

Catalog reader roles can discover and browse the Classifier. Catalog administrator roles can also maintain its category tree. Workspace Owners and Admins can manage it as well; Configurator has no implicit runtime access.

Catalog access never grants record access. Opening a result, changing a Classifier field, or clearing an assignment is checked again through the record type, record, and field permissions. Classifier-based row security is a separate future capability and is not implied by placing a record in a category.