Aurora: About categories

Categories are the highest-level containers within your community. Depending on the business purpose for your community, your categories might reflect lines of business, product lines, or other high-level divisions. If necessary, you can nest categories within higher-level ones or add boards to the top level of the community. As a rule of thumb, it’s best to start with a few high-level categories so that new visitors (and all visitors are new at this point) can find the boards they want quickly. In addition to one or more categories for your initial boards, you might also want to create a Welcome board where you post the rules of the community.

As your community gains traction, you can build out additional categories and boards as needed. Again, your goal should be to keep the structure simple so that community members and visitors can find the content they want. You can also move boards and categories to other parts of your community.

You can nest categories under existing ones if you need further divisions within a category. You can also move categories to another location after their initial creation.

Category Permission Defaults

Setting category permission defaults enables you to grant the base permissions for all community members who can access the category.

To manage category permissions:

1. Go to Settings > Structure and hover your cursor over the row with the category whose permission defaults you want to set.
2. Click the gear icon and then click Edit.
   
   
3. On the Category Settings page, click Category Permissions.
4. In the Category Permission Defaults section, click Edit.
5. (Optional) To jump to a specific permission to manage, enter it in the Find a permission field.
6. Set Deny or Grant access for the settings in each area.

Note: Each permission entry displays a description and recommended deny/grant status, as shown in this example:

Related topics:

• About Community site structure
• Create a new role at the category level
• Permission descriptions