Creating categories

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You create a new category for your content area to classify items and folders by type. When users add an item to the content area or create a new folder, they assign a category to it to tell other users what kind of content is found in the item or folder. Users can search on categories to display all of the content that is currently associated with the category.

Not all of the available properties are set when you create a category. Typically, you will want to edit your category after creating it to specify the rest of the available properties.

You must be a content area or Oracle Portal administrator to create a category.

To create a category:

  1. Click to access the Navigator and then click Content Areas to go to the Content Area Navigator.

    Note: You can also get to the Content Area Navigator from the content area Administration page.

  2. Click Contents next to the name of the content area to which you want to add the category. If the list of content areas is very long, use Find to go directly to the desired content area.

    Note: If you want to use your category in multiple content areas, click Contents next to Shared Objects rather than a particular content area. You must be a portal administrator or have Manage privileges to create shared objects.

  3. Click Create next to Categories or, to create a child category, click Categories and click Create next to the category you want to be the parent.

  4. Fill in the properties for the category.

  5. Click Create.

  6. You can now either click the category link at the top of the page to further define your new category, create additional categories, or click Close to leave the Category Manager and return to the Content Area Navigator.

    Note: From the editing page of the Category Manager you can change the category's name and title text, add a description, specify whether it should be made available as a portlet, specify how it should appear if it is a portlet, and associate images with it.

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What is a category?
Editing categories
Deleting categories

Listing category contents
Ordering items in a folder by category

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