Taxonomy functionality is available if your WDK-based application integrates with CIS. A taxonomy is a specific hierarchy of categories and subcategories into which you organize content. If your installation includes taxonomy functionality, then the same content files can be grouped in different ways by creating different taxonomies. Taxonomies provide alternate organizational schemes from the scheme found in the repository folders.

For example, a taxonomy might create categories based on your organization’s departments. Content created by the Engineering department would be assigned to the Engineering category; content created by the Public Relations department would be assigned to the PR category; and so on. This taxonomy might be helpful for users who use documents only within their departments. Another taxonomy, however, might create categories based on product, combining a product’s Engineering specifications into the same category as the product’s PR bulletins. That taxonomy might be helpful for users who work only on specific products.

You can move, copy and search categories just as you can folders. To do any of these, use the same procedure as applies to any item in the repository.

A template can specify that new content created from the template is linked to one or more categories. When a user creates new content from the template, the content is only linked to categories for which the user has at least Browse permission.

When you click Categories, the available taxonomies appear. When you click a taxonomy, its first level of categories appears.