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Managing Tile, Template, and Place Categories

You can manage categories of tiles, templates, and places within your community. This helps organize these elements to enhance user experience when creating and browsing.

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Admin Console: Add-ons > Tile Categories; Place Template Management; Admin Console: System > Settings > Place Categories

Managing Tile Categories​

You may want to limit the range of tiles available to users who create places or organize your custom tiles into categories. Follow these steps to manage tile categories:

  1. In the Admin Console, go to Add-ons > Tile Categories.

  2. To create a new category, click Add a category and type the name in the list.

  3. To hide a category from users, including all tiles it includes (unless they're also in another category), click Hide Category. This action does not affect already created places, which will still use the tiles but make them unselectable for new or modifying places.

  4. To permanently delete a category, click Delete Category. Note that you can't delete built-in Jive categories, but you can hide them.

  5. Click Save to apply your changes.

The categories you selected will be hidden or deleted, and new categories will be created.

Refer to the Tile Reference (Place tile reference) when managing tile categories.

Managing Template Categories​

To manage template categories:

  1. In the Admin Console, go to Add-ons > Place Template Management.

  2. Click Add a category to create a new category, and type the name in the list. The number of visible template categories is limited.

  3. To hide a category from users, including all templates it includes (unless they're also in another category), click Hide Category. This does not affect already created places.

  4. To delete a category from the list permanently, click Delete Category next to the template. You can't delete built-in Jive categories, but you can hide them.

  5. Click Save to apply your changes.

Categories that are hidden or deleted will remain unaffected for places that have already been created.

Refer to the Place Template Reference (Place template reference) when managing template visibility.

Managing Place Categories​

You can create categories for describing places, which can be used as filters when browsing. Follow these steps to manage place categories:

  1. In the Admin Console, go to System > Settings > Place Categories.

  2. Create a list of categories by clicking Add a category, typing a category name in the field, and clicking Save. A community can have up to 12 categories defined.

  3. To hide a category from users creating or editing places, click Hide. This action also makes it invisible when browsing by category. If you choose to show the category later, it will become visible again.

  4. To delete a category permanently, click Delete next to the category.

  5. Click Save to apply your changes.

Changes in place categories will be reflected site-wide.

Note that place categories are different from categories used to classify content inside places. For more information, see Managing content categories from the Admin Console.

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