The File Catalog is (available for Packagepackage-based projects . It allows you to see all the files in the project whether or not they are in a package yetonly) represents an inventory of files, which may be assembled into packages, built, and deployed to one or more environments.  The items in the catalog contain metadata, differing for each project type.  If using source control for the project, the items are automatically discovered into the catalog. For some project types, the items are discoverable from the underlying source system (e.g. a development repository).  The files represent metadata only, as the referenced source file is pulled from source control or the source system during the build.

For project types where the catalog files are not discoverable, you can create the metadata manually.  This provides FlexDeploy with the information necessary to pull the source file during the build.  For some project types (such as Oracle EBS) you can have a combination of files discovered from source control and files whose metadata is provided manually.

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Discovering Project Files

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