Configuring a taxonomy
A taxonomy allows you to classify or group similar content to better organize your knowledge base and support a more efficient search and display of content. Pega Knowledge supports a multi-level taxonomy category structure that offers flexibility in designing a classification approach to meet your business needs. A taxonomy category is associated with content during the content creation process.
Prior to creating your taxonomy categories, consider the most logical structure that aligns with how you want to organize and classify your content. Some organizations create taxonomy categories that match their organizational structure. Before creating a taxonomy in the authoring portal, identify the categories required for the business.
This section contains the following topics:
- Adding a new taxonomy category
- Deleting a category
- Editing a category
Adding a new taxonomy category
To create content or start a discussion that meets your content requirements when the existing categories are not relevant for new content, add a new category. You can view sample categories in the taxonomy, for example, Auto loans, Customer Service, Investment Options, and Retail Banking.
- In the left navigation panel of Pega Knowledge portal, click Taxonomy.
- On the Taxonomy page, click Add new category.
- In the Category name field, enter the name of the new category.
- Optional: To create the new category under the respective parent or top level category, click
Change , and then select a parent category. If you do not select the parent category, then the new category is created as a parent category.
- Optional: To add security content visibility setting to a category, select the appropriate
Authorized role from the list, and then click
Add. You can apply multiple roles to a category. Pega Knowledge authors might not have visibility to all access roles and could require a separate operator login. For more information, see Optional: Defining security.
- Optional: To add a knowledge expert to approve articles that are associated with this
category:
- To add an external approver, select the Is approver external check box, and then add the external email address in the External approver email field.
An email notification is sent to an external approver email address with the article link for review. This article link can be accessed for one time only.- To add an internal approver, from the Category knowledge expert list, select the approver.
- To assign the selected knowledge expert as an approver for all associated child categories, select the Apply knowledge expert to all associated child categories check box.
- To select an image to use for this category, click Choose file,
and then click Upload.Sample category icons are provided in the Pega Distribution media in the Resource Kit directory (SampleCategoryIcons.zip). Your system administrator can unzip this file onto a shared drive or a location where you can access and upload the desired category icon.
- To save the new category, click Submit.After you delete the category, any related content is automatically assigned to the Uncategorized category. You should check the uncategorized categories in the Taxonomy page periodically to review content and assign it to the proper category.
Deleting a category
You can delete unwanted categories from the taxonomy.
- On the Category page, click the Delete icon for the category to delete.
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Click
Delete.
After you delete the category, any related content is automatically assigned to the Uncategorized category. KM Authors should check the uncategorized category in the Taxonomy page periodically to review content and assign it to the proper category.
Editing a category
You can edit the details of a particular category to change the category type, category name, authorized roles, and the category image.
- On the Category page, click the Edit selected category icon.
- To change the parent category, click Change and select the category type.
- Optional: Edit the Category name.
- Optional: Add and delete the Authorized roles for the category.
- Optional: Choose an image file to upload as the icon for the category.
- Click Update.
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