Creating a category

1. To create a category, click Content » Categories.
2. On Categories page perform one of the following:
• If you have not created any categories, the system displays the following in the center of the screen:

  

• If you have already created one or more categories, the system displays all created categories and the following button in the toolbar of Categories page:

  

  NOTE: If you are working in multilingual mode, before creating a category, you must first choose the language in which you want to create the news item. Select the language from Languages dropdown box in the right of the page.

• For more information about different languages, see Managing languages.
3. Click Create a category or Create a Category respectively.
   The Create a category page appears.
4. Enter the name of the category.
5. Choose between the following radio buttons:
• No parent
  The category you want to create is a top level category.
• Select a parent…
  The category you want to create is under another category. For example, animals can be the parent category of mammals, and mammals can be the parent category of cats.
  A list of existing categories appears. Select the parent category of the new category and click Done.
6. To add a description for the category, click Click to add a description.
   In the input field that appears, enter the description of the category.
7. In URL name, you can change the automatically generated URL of the category by clicking Change button and entering the new URL in the input field that appears.
8. By clicking Advanced, you can perform the following:
• Enter synonyms of the category.
  You can filter your content items by the name of the category or by its synonyms.
• Change the name used in the code by developers to refer to the category, by clicking Change.
9. When you are finished click one of the following:
• Create
  The category is created and the system returns you to Categories page.
• Create and add another.
  Use this button if you want to create more categories.