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Planning a taxonomy

Before creating a taxonomy, you should analyze how the taxonomy will be used in your site to determine the best structure for your taxonomy.

You group categories within taxonomies.

You cannot use taxonomies in menu searches. If you would like to have a menu return results based on content profiled with any category in a taxonomy, you should 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

 

Using categories to profile content

When building a hierarchy of taxonomies and categories it is important to consider how a menu will use your 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. In the above example, 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: Developing a taxonomy
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