Catalog

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Publisher’s App Catalog

The Catalog is a tool in the Publish area that you use to create and manage your app listings. An app listing is the metadata displayed about an app on the App Store — the app's name, tag line, description, logo, media, pricing, and tags. The Catalog is where you write that information and where you move each listing from draft to published.

You may also see the Catalog called the publisher catalog, your listings, or the listings page — in the left navigation it appears simply as Catalog. Publishers often ask about it as "how do I get my app on the App Store."

Applies to: Organizations enabled as a Publisher in Insight Cloud
You'll need: The Manage Listing permission to view or edit listings, and a completed Publisher Profile before any listing can be created
Last reviewed: 2026-09-14

Where to find the Catalog

From the left navigation, open Publish. The Catalog is the default page in Publish, so it opens automatically. You can also select Catalog from within Publish.

What you can do with the Catalog

Create a new app listing with + New Listing
Write the App Store metadata for a listing: app name, tag line, description, logo, and tags
Add media (images or video) and links to external documentation
Set optional annual and monthly subscription pricing
Connect a Sigma workbook to a listing to create a visual-based app
See a full-screen Preview of the listing before you publish it
Publish a listing, and set whether it appears on the App Store as a Private App or a Public App
Make a published listing private again, or delete it outright

How to create and publish an app listing

Complete your Publisher Profile first. Go to Publish → Publisher Profile and fill in the required information. Listings cannot be created until the Publisher Profile is complete.
Navigate to the Catalog.
Click + New Listing.
Fill in the listing details on the page you're taken to. App Name, App Description, Tag Line, and at least one Tag are required. Everything else is optional — see the field table below.
Click Preview to check how the listing will read on the App Store. The preview opens full screen, and the only action available there is Back to Editing — you cannot publish from the preview. There is no review or approval step after you publish, so the preview is your only check.
Click Publish. A modal opens asking you to set Store Visibility. Publishing and setting visibility happen together — if you close the modal without choosing a visibility setting, the listing is not published and stays a draft.

You'll know it worked when clicking + New Listing takes you to a new page for the listing's details, and a new entry named New Listing appears in your catalog. While the listing is a draft it carries a grey Draft badge beside its name and a Draft as of timestamp under the action buttons. Once you publish, the listing's status reads Published and the timestamp changes to Last Published.

The listing form's action buttons

The action buttons are pinned at both the top and the bottom of the listing form, so you can reach them without scrolling. Which buttons you see depends on the listing's state:

Listing state	Buttons	Timestamp shown
Draft (never published)	Publish, Preview, Delete	Draft as of {time and date}
Published	Publish Changes, Preview, Discard Changes, Delete	Last Published {time and date}

Discard Changes clears the form and reverts it to the currently published version of the listing. It appears only on a published listing.

How saving works

A draft listing auto-saves as you work. If an auto-save fails, an error message tells you why — see If a listing won't save below.

A published listing does not auto-save. Your edits live in the form until you click Publish Changes, and navigating away loses them. Publish or discard before you leave the page.

Publisher Catalog listing fields

Field	Required	Notes
App Logo	Optional
App Name	Required	No character limit
App Description	Required	5,000 characters
Tag Line	Required	No character limit
Content Date	Optional	Applies only to visual-based apps whose content is tied to a specific date. Apps that use Content Date tend to be written analysis rather than data analysis.
Store Visibility	Required at publish	Disabled on a draft listing. You set it in the modal that opens when you click Publish. Two options: Private App — "Hidden from the App Store and permission-controlled"; Public App — "Visible to all users on the App Store." On a published listing it becomes a pair of radio buttons on the form.
Subscription pricing	Optional	Annual and monthly pricing
Connect App	Optional	Connects a Sigma workbook to the listing to create a visual-based app
Tags	Required	At least one selection from one of five categories: Sector(s), Use Case(s), Data Type(s), Topic(s), Region(s)
Media	Optional	Images or video
Documentation	Optional	Links to external resources

Limits and what the Catalog can't do

The Catalog does not generate listing information for you. You write the app name, tag line, description, and tags yourself.
The Catalog does not create or build apps. It manages App Store information only. Apps are built with Seek Build Tools (SBT) and managed in Create → App Management.
A listing can exist in the Catalog without an app attached to it.
You cannot set Store Visibility on a draft listing. The control is disabled until you publish, and it is set in the publish modal.
Changing Store Visibility on a published listing does not take effect on its own. You have to click Publish Changes again for the new visibility to apply.
A published listing does not auto-save. Only draft listings do. Edits to a published listing are lost if you navigate away without clicking Publish Changes.
Discard Changes is not available on a draft listing. It appears only once the listing has been published.
You cannot publish from the Preview screen. The only action in the full-screen preview is Back to Editing.
There is no review or approval flow in the Catalog. A Public App listing goes to the App Store when you publish it, so use Preview before publishing rather than expecting a check afterwards.
Deleting a listing cannot be undone. All of the listing's metadata is lost and cannot be recovered.
You cannot view or edit listings without the Manage Listing permission, even in an organization that is enabled as a Publisher.
Listings cannot be created at all until the Publisher Profile is complete.

Removing a listing from the App Store

The Catalog gives you two ways to take a listing down, and they are not the same thing:

Set Store Visibility to Private App. Open the listing, select Private App under Store Visibility, then click Publish Changes — the change does not apply until you republish. The listing is then hidden from the App Store and permission-controlled, but it stays in your catalog with all of its metadata intact. Use this when you may want to make the listing public again later.
Delete the listing. Click Delete in the action buttons at the top or bottom of the listing form. The listing is removed from the system entirely. Deleting is permanent — all of the listing's metadata is lost and cannot be recovered. There is no way to restore a deleted listing, so Private App is the safer choice unless you're certain.

Catalog vs. App Management vs. Publisher Profile

These three screens are easy to confuse, and they do different jobs:

Catalog (Publish → Catalog) — the App Store listings for your apps: the metadata subscribers read.
App Management (Create → App Management) — the apps your organization has actually built, with production versions, subscriber counts, and publish status. See App Management.
Publisher Profile (Publish → Publisher Profile) — your organization's identity as an app builder, shown on app detail pages. It must be complete before you can create listings. See Publisher Profile.

The Catalog is also not Org Settings → Apps or My Apps, both of which show apps your organization has installed or uses, not apps it publishes.

If a listing won't save

Draft listings auto-save. If an auto-save fails on a draft, Insight Cloud displays an error message explaining why the save failed. If a publish fails on an already-published listing, you'll see an error message identifying the problematic data entries.

Read the error message, correct the fields it names, and save or publish again. If you can't resolve the issue from the error message, contact Support.

Publisher Profile — the organization identity you must complete before you can create a listing
App Publishing Lifecycle — how apps, versions, and listings relate to each other
App Management — the apps your organization has built, and their production versions
App Store Basics — what subscribers see when they browse your published listing
Data Visualizations with Sigma — building the Sigma workbook you connect with Connect App

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