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Taxonomies

David Klement
5 minutes
Taxonomy
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With taxonomies in Kontent.ai, you can tag your content items and assets and boost your productivity. To tag your content items, you need to create a taxonomy group, add taxonomy terms, and add a taxonomy element with the group to the content type of items you wish to tag.
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Create a taxonomy group

  1. In Content model, select the Taxonomies tab.
  2. Create a taxonomy group for your taxonomy.
  3. Add taxonomy terms.
  4. Click Save changes.

Manage terms in taxonomy groups

  1. In Content model, select the Taxonomies tab.
  2. Select the taxonomy group you want to manage the terms in.
  3. You can reorder, nest, rename, and delete the taxonomy terms:
    • Reorder the terms in the group by dragging them by the handle.
      • Establish hierarchy by using the handle to nest child terms under the parent term.
    • Click a term to rename it or delete it using the Remove button.
    • Copy or edit a term’s codename after clicking the button.
Managing a taxonomy group by reordering, nesting, renaming and deleting terms
Reorder, nest, rename and delete taxonomy terms
Need a direction with taxonomies?If you’re looking for some direction on what terms or taxonomies you can create for categorizing, check out our content modeling accelerators with preset taxonomies you can use and configure.

Delete taxonomy groups

  1. In Content model, select the Taxonomies tab.
  2. Select one or more taxonomy groups using the checkboxes next to their names.
  3. Click Delete in the top right.
Deleting taxonomy groups is irreversibleDeleting a taxonomy group is irreversible and affects your published and unpublished content immediately. You can restore the deleted groups right after you delete them, but not later.

Add a taxonomy into a content type

To use your taxonomy in content items, you need to add it to the content type of the items.
  1. In Content model, select the Content types tab.
  2. Open the content type to which you want to add the taxonomy group.
  3. Drag (or click) the Taxonomy element.
  4. Name the taxonomy element.
  5. Select the appropriate taxonomy group. 
  6. Click Save changes. 
Add content groups to keep focus
Taxonomy element in a content type
We recommend you limit the element to a specific number of terms for validation.
To enable tagging of assets, add a taxonomy element to the asset type.

Tag content items

With the taxonomy element in place, start tagging your content. Check out how to tag content items with taxonomies.