Categories allow to set document instance of different doctypes in a hierarchy.
Categories allow to set document instance of different doctypes in a hierarchy.
Properties
The document type category provides the following properties:
Short Name
The name of the category includes the path to the root category which makes the names of categories quite unwieldy. Therefore the short name is just the last part of the category path.
Sections
Description
Documents the semantics of the category.
Subordinate Categories
Categories are hierarchic. This is reflected by the name of categories, which include the path to the category root.
Documents
List of documents that are associated with this category.
Per default only documents within the same space are listed. If you want to reference
Notes
These are internal notes that are usually not exported and only visible to team members with write access.
But this is not a safe place to store sensible information. It is just a convenience for the reader to not be bothered with notes stored here for the authors for later use. The security level is about suppressing the representation by a CSS style. Therefore consider this as a convenience for the reader, not as a security tool.
References
For a document the references section contains pointers to resources that prove the statements of the document.
Often these proofs are not easily distinguishable from further information. In this case you may want to skip the reference section in favour for the resource list.
Resources
The resources section provides references to further information to the topic of the document.
This may be information on the internet provided by the resource or information in the team's information systems. Anything the reader of the resource might want to know, may be listed here.
Details
Title Encoding
Spaces are limited such that there can only be one page with a given title. Categories typically define an alternate view on a topic. There may be other documents with the same title, but of different document types. Therefore Categories prepend a slash ('/') separated by a space in front of the name. Therefore category names look like paths in a tree (or taxonomy if you like).
You may check the box on the wizard to create a new category to care for this conventional encoding.
Available since version 1.10.
Resources
- Employ the Autolist Feature with Categories - Categories, tags, and others allow to organize the pages in your wiki. First define categories pages with display table macros. Second tag your pages with these categories. With this two-step process it is easy to have multiple views to link to your information in your wiki.
- Finding without Searching - applied! - A blog article on organizing Confluence spaces with the projectdoc Toolbox.
