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Choose available components

The COMPONENT CATALOGUE half of Components & Plugins lists every component type that is available. It also lets you choose which types engineers see when they add a component to a profile. Opening the screen needs the View plugins permission. Changing the catalogue needs Modify plugins. Refer to Install and manage plugins.

The COMPONENT CATALOGUE table lists every component type in Profinity, grouped by family. Disabling a component type or a whole group removes it from the ADD COMPONENT list without uninstalling anything. This keeps the choices short for a deployment that uses only a few device types. Enabling it again brings it straight back.

Expand a group to show its component types. Use the search box on the COMPONENT CATALOGUE table to filter by name. The Status column shows whether each row is currently available. The Actions column holds the button that changes it:

  • Disable hides a single component type, and Enable makes it available again.
  • Disable group hides every component type in a group at once, and Enable group restores them.

The change takes effect as soon as you select the button. You do not need to restart Profinity. Enabling one component type inside a disabled group enables the group and leaves the other types in it disabled. This lets you bring back a single device without exposing the rest of its family. The components of a disabled plugin do not appear in the catalogue at all, so enable the plugin first, as described in Install and manage plugins.

Why a component can be unavailable

A component type is available only when the licence, the custom.yaml file and the site configuration (config.yaml) all allow it. Profinity checks the licence first, then custom.yaml, then config.yaml.

Rows that cannot be enabled

A row with no action button is locked, and the Status column says why.

  • Not licensed means your licence does not cover the component. Refer to Licensing.
  • Disabled (Custom.yaml) means the supplier of your Profinity build hid the component through the custom.yaml file in the config folder. Profinity only reads that file, so you cannot enable the component from this screen.
  • Disabled, Disabled (group), or Disabled (component) means the site configuration disables the component.

If an attempt to change a row fails, a message explains the reason.