Overview
This page discusses what is, or is not, meant by "Catalog" in Magento 2.
Apparently the terms catalog and category were somewhat ambiguous in Magento 1 (as described in Mastering Magento 2, p55, and not as on p26 Categories vs catalogs which was apparently left over from the Magento 1 book, and is now in the errata).
My distillation of what these terms mean is included in the diagram here.
The current page just details some oddities about where and how the catalog appears in the admin UI.
Catalog in the Admin UI
This chart displays the idiosyncratic set of scope levels offered in different places. The actual underlying data structure provides Products with associations to Websites, Stores or Store Views. However, in the Admin UI grids, only a seemingly random assortment of these are offered for display columns, and for filters.
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Scopes
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(global, "all")
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Website
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Store
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Store View
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Underlying data.
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Products' actual affiliation:
(could have multiple associations at each scope level)
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Complete pool |
"Product in Website" [1]
| Category [2]
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Enable [3]
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Admin > Products > Catalog grid
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Scope columns offered for display:
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Yes
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no
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no
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Scope filters offered: |
Yes (no filter) |
no
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no
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Yes |
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Admin> Products > category > select category >
expand Products in Category grid
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Scope columns offered for display: |
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no
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no
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no
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Scope filters offered: |
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no
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Prefiltered to this level
or lower category
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no
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Notes:
[1] Product in Website: Product's "Product In Websites" setting.
[2] Category: Category setting of Store, plus Categories setting of Product.
[3] Enable: Product Enable can be set at Store View scope
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