You have seen how to categorize a content item in Chapter 2 in Categorizing content. However, you might be wondering how to create those categories in your system. You can use Alfresco Administration Console to create, and manage the available categories for your enterprise content management. We will explore this in this recipe.
There are some default categories created in alfresco standard distribution. Categories, in Alfresco, are hierarchical—much similar to the real life categories. Let's consider taking an example of an existing category—Regions.
Note that not all the hierarchies are displayed in this diagram.
Six sample regions are created, and under each of these sub-regions are created. The next level contains countries within that region. This hierarchy can go on up to any level depicting the business scenario you are looking for.
Now, let's see how to create and edit these categories.