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Overview

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Content Management

To create and edit Content Categories you will need to have access to Category Access in Administration. Navigate to Administration > General > Content Categories to access the list of categories & sub categories in the system.

Your secure sub categories, default draft folder, and approval categories are highlighted by the use of icons on the right hand side of the list.

Category

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1. Click the create link button at the bottom of your list, or the Create New Category link from Administration, to create a new Category. This will open the Category Form.
2. Provide a Name and Description for the Sub Category
3. Select the Category level. In your hierarchy of content you must first create a category level before you create its associated Sub Categories.
4. Provide a sort order if required
   Note: leaving the value as 0 will use standard alphabetical sorting.
5. Select the status of the category
   Note: if you leave the category in DRAFT mode users will not be able to access content or store content in this category.

Sub Category

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1. Click the create link button at the bottom of your list, or the Create New Category link from the Admin Console, to create a new Category. This will open the Category Form.
2. Provide a Name and Description for the Sub Category
3. Select the Sub Category level. In your hierarchy of content you must first create a category level before you create its associated Sub Categories.
4. Select a Category to store the Sub Category in to
5. Define if this is the Draft Content Storage category
   Note: enabling this option means that any content that is not activated is automatically stored in this Sub Category. There can only be one Draft Storage category.
6. Provide a sort order if required
   Note: leaving the value as 0 will use standard alphabetical sorting.
7. Select the status of the category
   Note: if you leave the category in DRAFT mode users will not be able to access content or store content in this category.

Publish Access & Approvals

In the Category edit page the Publish Access and Approvals section allows you to determine which users can publish public reports to the category.

• If you select 'Users with Functional Access" then all users with the public report function can write to this folder
• If you select a person or expert group - then only specified users can publish reports into that folder. If a user does not have access to publish to that folder the report will be routed to an Expert for approval.

Report Version History

One option available within Yellowfin is the ability to maintain previous instances of a report. When a user selects this option not only is the report definition saved but the data as well. This allows users to view previous versions of the report and compare result sets.

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Content Security & Access

You can secure your categories to restrict users' access to the content writing and view capability for the selected category. The options for setting the security are as follows:

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