Service Catalog scoping

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title: Service Catalog scoping
description: Scoping support is available to define the limits of entities in Service Catalog.
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release: australia
product: Service Catalog
classification: service-catalog
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Configuring Service Catalog, Service Catalog, Manage service capabilities, Extend ServiceNow AI Platform capabilities]
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# Service Catalog scoping

Scoping support is available to define the limits of entities in Service Catalog.

-   A catalog can have categories from different scopes.
-   A category can only be in the same scope as its parent category.
-   You can associate a catalog item with categories of a different scope.
-   Catalog items can contain variable sets from a different scope.
-   Variables can only be in the same scope as the catalog item or variable set.
-   Catalog UI policies can only be in the same scope as the catalog item or variable set.
-   Catalog client scripts can only be in the same scope as the catalog item or variable set.
-   Catalog data lookup can only be in the same scope as the catalog item or variable set.
-   The rule base of an order guide can have items from different scopes.
-   The scope of the record producer and the target table should be the same.

-   **[Referencing Service Catalog variables in server-side scripts](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/c_ScriptableServiceCatalogVariables.md)**  
You can use scripting to reference any request item variable from a table in scoped and non-scoped environment.

**Parent Topic:**[Configuring Service Catalog](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/configuring-service-catalog.md)