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title: Adding Categories to a Report
description: Learn how to add Display Categories to your reports.
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# Adding Categories to a Report

## Adding display categories to a report is a key part of content management in Content Catalyst. 

Display categories act as containers for all reports uploaded to Content Catalyst. They are used for organising, searching and licensing your subscribers' content.

🔔**Note:** See [Creating a Display Category](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hc/en-gb/articles/212092526-creating-a-display-category?hsLang=en)

Display categories the report is currently assigned to will be shown on report landing pages, as shown below.

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-09-09-9957-PM.png?width=561&height=465&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-09-09-9957-PM.png)

### Adding a Category to a single report

To add a category to a single report, head to **Admin \> Contents \> Reports.**

Select an existing report. 

Under the '**Display Categories**' area,  select the pencil icon to '**edit categories**' the report is assigned to. 

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-12-38-0462-PM.png?width=670&height=214&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-12-38-0462-PM.png)

🔔**Note: **If a report is not assigned to any categories, it will not be visible to subscribers. 

Select the chosen category or categories and '**Apply changes**' to save.

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-26-13-1144-PM.png?width=670&height=285&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-26-13-1144-PM.png)

Once the category has been added, it will appear as shown below. 

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-31-04-4231-PM.png?width=670&height=219&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-31-04-4231-PM.png)

### PCN Category Topics

Any categories added to a report that match PCN topic groupings will be visible under the Display categories area. 

See below

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-04-28-28-4581-PM.png?width=569&height=357&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-04-28-28-4581-PM.png)

If no categories match topic groupings, the message  '**This categorisation does not match any topics**' will be displayed.

🔔**Note: **see [Managing Personalised Content Notification Topics](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/managing-personalised-content-notification-topics?hsLang=en)

### Removing a Category from a Single Report

To remove the category from the report, simply select the delete icon.

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-04-20-15-3542-PM.png?width=670&height=449&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-04-20-15-3542-PM.png)

### Adding Categories to Multiple Reports

Categories can be added to multiple reports via the bulk import tool. 

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-41-00-9125-PM.png?width=560&height=557&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-41-00-9125-PM.png)

When using the export template, your site's current top-level display categories will appear as column headers.

For example: 

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-44-14-7656-PM.png?width=670&height=123&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-44-14-7656-PM.png)

To assign the report to a category,  simply add the subcategory name to the top-level category row for the corresponding report.

The example shown below a report has been added to each of the '**Featured**' subcategories.

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-56-06-6144-PM.png?width=311&height=227&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-56-06-6144-PM.png)

 

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-53-44-0530-PM.png?width=670&height=282&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-03-53-44-0530-PM.png)

If a report needs to assigned to multiple sub-categories simply include these under there corrosponding columns comma seperated.  

Example below: 

![](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-19-2026-04-16-27-4404-PM.png?width=315&height=220&name=image-png-Jan-19-2026-04-16-27-4404-PM.png)

**🔔Note:** For more infomation on bulk importing see [Bulk Upload Reports (Metadata)](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115002138963-bulk-upload-reports-metadata-?hsLang=en)

### Category-Wide Licensing

If a report is added to a category included in an existing '**Category Wide License**', users under license will be able to access this content as soon as it has been added and published.

**🔔Note:** see [Add a Category-Wide License](https://guide.contentcatalyst.com/hc/en-gb/articles/212092106-how-to-add-a-category-wide-level-license?hsLang=en)

 

 

 

 

 

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