Managing Content Categories Using User Interface

Overview

Content categories are words or phrases an administrator provides for users to classify content in a place. Content categories can be specified for a place from the Admin Console or the Jive web application's User Interface.

This article provides the procedure for managing content categories from the User Interface.

Information

As a place administrator, you define categories in a way that is meaningful inside the place. As you create categories, think about how the place's content should be grouped. You can add up to thirty (30) categories to a place.

Additionally, you can associate tags with categories. When a tag is associated with a category, someone who uses this tag to label content in the place sees the category name highlighted. This is a cue to consider assigning the content to the category.

By managing the list of categories, you can help ensure that content is organized in the best way for people using the place. Content categories are created and managed in the User Interface or in the Admin Console.

Content categories differ from the place categories that are used to classify places. For more information about place categories, see Managing Place Categories.

Process

To manage the content categories, from the Jive web application's User Interface:

1. Navigate to your group or project.
2. Select Gear icon > Categories, to open the Manage Categories dialog box, where:
   • To create a new category:
     1. Click Add New Category which opens a dialog box.
     2. In Name, specify the category name.
     3. In Tags, specify the related tags. You can apply this category to popular place tags by selecting the Apply this new category to all content using the suggested tags? checkbox.
     4. Click Save.
   • To edit an existing category, click the edit icon next to the category, to make required changes.
   • To change the order of categories, use arrows next to categories to move them in the list.
   • To delete a category, click the delete icon next to the category.
3. When you are done making changes to categories list, click Finished.

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