Reclassifying content

The reclassify action allows you to replace a Keyword association from one or more items such as Pages and Components.

Before you begin

  • To be able to use reclassify functionality, you must have Category Management rights and the relevant rights for the types of Content Manager items you want to reclassify and Write permissions for the organizational item
  • The items to reclassify must be local copies or local items (you cannot reclassify items that are shared)
  • The items to reclassify must be checked-in

About this task

You can perform reclassify in the Categories and Keywords Classified Items List View.

Procedure

  1. Open Content Manager Explorer.
  2. Open a Publication and expand the Categories and Keywords node.
  3. Select a Keyword in the Navigation Pane or List View.
    The items containing the Keyword are displayed in the Classified Items List View, depending on the selected filters.
  4. Select one or more Content Manager items in the Classified Items List View.
    A Keyword Picker dialog appears.
  5. Open the Ribbon toolbar Organize tab and click Reclassify.
    A Keyword Picker window appears.
  6. In the Keyword Picker dialog, select one or more Keywords and click Select to add it to the list of available Keywords which are used to classify the selected items.
  7. Click the Reclassify button.

Results

Each Keyword field in an item selected for classification is evaluated individually. The Content Manager checks the Schema for allowed values for the Keyword field and then looks in the list of available Keywords for valid Keywords:
  • If the Keyword field is a single-valued field:
    • the action succeeds if there is exactly one valid Keyword in the available Keywords list
    • the action fails if there is more than one valid Keyword in the available Keywords list
    • the content is not classified if there are no valid Keywords in the available Keywords list
  • If the Keyword field is a multi-valued field:
    • the action succeeds if there is one or more valid Keywords in the list that it can use to classify the Keyword field against
    • the content is not classified if there are no valid Keywords in the available Keywords list
  • When the action succeeds:
    • the previous Keyword or Keywords are removed from the Component field or Metadata field of the selected items
    • the available Keyword or Keywords are added to the Component field or Metadata field of the selected items
    • a new version of the item is created
    • if the item is associated with a Workflow Process, the item goes into Workflow.
  • When the action fails (one or more Keyword fields in an item could not classified against the available Keywords) an error message is displayed providing details.

What to do next

After you have classified content, you need to republish the items to synchronize the changes with Content Delivery.