Profiling methods

Use the following profiling methods to group content items.

Profiling content items

Taxonomies and categories

A Category refers to the subject matter of your content item.

For example, your content item may be of the category New Products or Latest News. Use taxonomies to group categories. Users select from a predefined list of categories when profiling a Content item.

In most cases, you should only use bottom-level categories to profile content. This will give you more control over what will display in menus.

Keywords

You also use Keywords to profile content. Unlike categories, which are chosen from a predefined list, you can enter any keywords you like when creating content items.

Additional profiling options

Profiling users

You can add profile information to users. This can be used as search parameters in menu elements.

Profiling rendering portlets

You can enter profile information when configuring a rendering portlet.

This can be used as search parameters in menu elements.

Profiling versus access controls

Profiling can be used to personalize a Web site for different users. This is different from using item access controls to limit what items a user can access. In a profile based personalized site, although a user may not be able to access all the pages via personalized menus, they may still be able to access other pages by using navigators, or by searching for content. Using access controls limits a user to only view items that they have been granted access to.

Parent topic:

Develop a profiling strategy

Related tasks

Edit user profiles
Profiling a rendering portlet

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