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Adding Category Associations

Prerequisites:

See Taxonomy Prerequisites for details.
Content items must exist. See Creating Pages and Components or Uploading Assets for details.

Users with access to TaxonomyManager can associate pages, components, and assets with individual categories. Users can choose to simultaneously associate one or multiple content items with a category within the Associations tab.

Tip

Users with appropriate taxonomy permissions in the Site Tree and Assets Tree can add categories to individual content items. See Categorizing Pages and Components and Categorizing Assets for details.

Associate Individual Content Item

To associate a category with a single content item:

Navigate to Administration > Taxonomy.
Select the category to associate.
The Category, Associations, Security, and Synonyms tabs display.
Click the Associations tab.
Content items associated with the category display.
Follow the step that corresponds with your site version. See CMS Statistics to check your site version.
- Version Notes: CMS 10.6
  Add a content item to associate with the category.
  Click the Add Association button .
  The Add Association dialog displays.
  Enter the ID or first letters of the content item name in the provided field, and then select the content item in the results list.
  Select Confirm to add the content item association.
- Version Notes: CMS 10.0–10.5
  Add a content item to associate with the category.
  Click the plus (+) icon located to the left of the ID column header.
  The search field displays.
  Enter the ID or first letters of the content item name, and then select the content item in the results list.
  Click the search field plus (+) icon to confirm and save the association.
The content item displays as an association in the list.
Tip
Keep the following in mind for exporting category association data.
You can download the complete list of all content items associated with all categories by selecting the Export Associations button next to the Language and Search fields.
You can download a list of all content items associated with the individual category by selecting the Export button in the Associations tab.

Associate Multiple Content Items

To associate a category with a single content item:

Navigate to Administration > Taxonomy.
Select the category to associate.
The Category, Associations, Security, and Synonyms tabs display.
Click the Associations tab.
Content items associated with the category display.
Expand the read-only Site Tree or Assets Tree in the utility pane.
Locate the content items or asset items within the tree that you want to associate with the category, and press CTRL+Click or SHIFT+Click, or use the lasso tool to select multiple content items.
Tip
To use the lasso tool, click and drag the mouse to create a "lasso", and then encompass all content items within the lasso. Release the mouse when all content items have been contained.
Drag the selected items from the tree, and drop them in the Associations tab list area.
The content items display as associations in the list.
Tip
Keep the following in mind for exporting category association data.
You can download the complete list of all content items associated with all categories by selecting the Export Associations button next to the Language and Search fields.
You can download a list of all content items associated with the individual category by selecting the Export button in the Associations tab.

Next Steps:

Choose one of the following optional steps.

Set Taxonomy Security to manage user group category access.
Add Synonyms to the taxonomy category.
Localize the Category to multiple languages.