Categorizing content
Categorization enables contents to be grouped and classified. Categories are normally structured as per the organization business taxonomy.
For example, Alfresco comes with a default set of categories which you can use—
- Regions
- Software Document Classification
- Languages
You can create your own categories and classify your documents with those. <<Alfresco administrators can only define new categories other users don't have rights to define new categories in alfresco>>
Getting ready
Let's first have a look at the available categories.
- Click on the Administration Console link on the top bar.
- Click on Category Management. The list of root level categories comes up.
- Except for the InfoAxon Solutions, other categories are supplied by default.
- This is the Software Document Classification category hierarchy.
We will use this category further in this recipe.
We again take the About InfoAxon.html document to categorize.
How to do it...
- Open the details screen for this content. Expand the category section. By default, since there is no category associated with this document, it will show the following screenshot:
- First, you will have to allow categorization on this content. For that, click on Allow Categorization. A Change Category link will appear, click this to invoke the modify category dialog.
- Click on Select button to open the list of the available categories.
- Click on the OK button to save your categories.
- This brings back the document details page where you can see the associated categories in the document.
You must be wondering what we have achieved by categorizing the document. How we can find all the documents under the same category. This we will discuss in our next chapter—Searching your Content.
You will also see how you can create new categories in Chapter 5.