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Taxonomies

David Klement

5 minutes

Taxonomy

With taxonomies in Kontent.ai, you can tag your content items and assets

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

In Content model, select the Taxonomies tab.
Select the taxonomy group you want to manage the terms in.
You can reorder, nest, rename, and delete the taxonomy terms:
- Reorder the terms in the group by dragging them by the handle.

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.

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.

In Content model, select the Taxonomies tab.
Select one or more taxonomy groups using the checkboxes next to their names.
Click Delete in the top right.

To use your taxonomy in content items, you need to add it to the content type of the items.

In Content model, select the Content types tab.
Open the content type to which you want to add the taxonomy group.
Drag (or click) the Taxonomy element.
Name the taxonomy element.
Select the appropriate taxonomy group.
Click Save changes.

To enable tagging of assets, add a taxonomy element to the asset type.

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

Kontent.ai Learn

Create a taxonomy group

Manage terms in taxonomy groups

Managing a taxonomy group by reordering, nesting, renaming and deleting terms

Delete taxonomy groups

Add a taxonomy into a content type

Tag content items

Create a taxonomy group

Manage terms in taxonomy groups

Delete taxonomy groups

Add a taxonomy into a content type

Tag content items

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Reorder, nest, rename and delete taxonomy terms

We recommend you limit the element to a specific number of terms for validation.

Taxonomies | Kontent.ai Learn

Explore your path to mastery

Discover how taxonomies can create invisible relationships and filter categories within your content.
Master the art of taxonomies to complement your content modeling and categorize your content better.

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.

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 content groups to keep focus

For a better authoring experience, put the taxonomy element in a content group.
To restrict certain users from tagging, limit the content group to a specific user role.