Plan a taxonomy
Group categories within taxonomies.
We cannot use taxonomies in IWWCM menu searches. To have a menu return results based on content profiled with any category in a taxonomy, create a single top-level category and base the menu on the top-level category.
In this example:
- Taxonomy = MetaBank taxonomy
- Financial is the ancestor of Interest Rates, Personal, Business, Corporate and Banking Solutions
- Personal, Business and Corporate are the descendants of Interest Rates and Financial
Metabank Taxonomy
- Financial
- Banking Solutions
- Interest Rates
- Personal
- Business
- Corporate
- News
Use categories to profile content
When building a hierarchy of taxonomies and categories it is important to consider how a menu will use the categories in a search. This is because menus search both upwards and downwards within groups of categories.
If you base a menu on a top-level category, all content profiled with categories belonging to that top-level category and their descendants will appear in the menu.
A menu based on Financial will display content profiled with any of the following:
Financial
- Banking Solutions
- Interest Rates
- Personal
- Business
- Corporate
If you base a menu on a mid-level category, all content profiled with the mid-level category or its descendants or its ancestors appear in the menu.
A Menu based on Interest Rates, it will display Content profiled with any of the following:
Financial
- Interest Rates
- Personal.
- Business.
- Corporate.
If you base a menu on a bottom-level category, all content profiled with the bottom-level category or its ancestors will be returned by the menu.
A Menu based on Business will display content profiled with any of the following:
Financial
- Interest Rates
- Business.
Parent Topic
Develop a taxonomy