Creating & Managing Category Trees

Hidden Categories

Hidden categories can be used to license specific content to a customer

Hidden categories can be used to license specific content to a customer without other customers seeing them whilst they browse the site.

For example: reports for Coca-Cola are hidden from Pepsi.

How to add a Hidden category

1. To add a hidden category, go to the Content section in the Admin features menu and select Display Categories

2. You can either Add a new top-level category or select an existing category.

3. Hover over the category name and select Mark as hidden.

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4. If a category contains sub-categories unless explicitly hidden, they will inherit the parent category behaviour. Click Continue

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5. Now the category icon is grey. 

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You will now no longer be able to see this display category on the site.