Configuring categories

Categorizing is useful when you want to allow users to separate and organize the pages they create in the system. For example, based on the page topic. Categorizing is a different approach to sorting pages in the system from the one described in Tags.

In this chapter, you can learn how to configure categories so that they are usable by your site’s content editors. Specifically, you can learn about:

Displaying categories on individual pages

You can display a list of categories to which a given page is assigned. To achieve that, you (or your site’s developers) need to write custom code:

• MVC sites – load the category data into the models used to display your pages and adjust the corresponding views.
• Portal Engine sites – prepare a custom transformation method for displaying a list of categories.