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Categories are a kind of predefined "backgone" to organized content and facilitate navigation. Categories can be used for very different purposes. To effectively use categories you have to understand the difference to tags as they are available for TaggedTopics. So while tags are a kind of "keywords" that connect content in a per-to-per fashion, categories are a predefined hierarchy where content is situated in separate compartments.

Categories themselves are CategorizedTopics thus implementing a hierarchy.

See also: See CategorizedTopic, ClassifiedTopic, TaggedTopic, CategoryTemplate, CategoryViewTemplate, CategoryEditTemplate, RenderCategoryBrowser

%STARTSECTION{"readwrite"}%<!-- -->
%DBCALL{"Applications.RenderSimpleTopicCreator"}%

%IF{
  "'%HIERARCHY{
     web="%URLPARAM{"web" default="%BASEWEB%"}%"
     nullformat="$count"
     depth="0"
   }%'!=0"
   then="$percntDBCALL{\"Applications.ClassificationApp.RenderCategoryBrowser\" 
     THEWEB=\"%URLPARAM{"web" default="%BASEWEB%"}%\"
     MODE=\"edit\"
     BUTTONS=\"filter, refresh\"
   }$percnt"
}%<!-- -->%ENDSECTION{"readwrite"}%

%STARTSECTION{"readonly"}%<!-- -->
%IF{
  "'%HIERARCHY{
     web="%URLPARAM{"web" default="%BASEWEB%"}%"
     nullformat="$count"
     depth="0"
   }%'!=0"
   then="$percntDBCALL{\"Applications.ClassificationApp.RenderCategoryBrowser\" 
     THEWEB=\"%URLPARAM{"web" default="%BASEWEB%"}%\"
     MODE=\"browse\"
     BUTTONS=\"filter, refresh\"
   }$percnt"
}%<!-- -->%ENDSECTION{"readonly"}%

Category form

Name:	Type:	Size:	Values:	Description:	Attributes:	Default:
TopicType	label	3	Category,CategorizedTopic, WikiTopic	Document type		Category,CategorizedTopic, WikiTopic
TopicTitle	text	75
Summary	text	75		short description of this category
Redirect	topic	30		topic where to redirect to when visiting this category, e.g. a portal page representing this category
Category	cat	1		one or more parent categories that this category is filed to	c
Icon	icon	30	cat="fonticon"	icon to be displayed listing this category
ImportedCategory	text	75		import a root category from another web; all categories below it will be imported to this web in a virtual way
SubCategories	textarea	80x25		specify sub-categories inline as a bullet list
Order	text	5		number used in sorting categories
Responsible Person	user+multi	30		person taking care of this category

DataForms that use the 'Category' attribute

#	Name	Summary	Application
1	CategorizedTopic	content organized by categories	ClassificationApp
2	Category	a classification in a field of knowledge	ClassificationApp
3	ClassifiedControlledTopic	classified content under workflow control	ClassificationApp
4	ClassifiedTopic	content organized by categories and tags	ClassificationApp
5	SeoTopic	a topic carrying search engine enhanced metadata	ClassificationApp
6	WorkflowDefinition	defines a workflow for controlled topics	ClassificationApp