Hi and welcome to this recording on taxonomies. Taxonomies, if you're not familiar with the term, really it's categorization of content maybe in Gmail you've seen labels, different ways to organize your content. As you may well know, Paligo has folders. You can have hierarchial folders but that's not enough. Maybe you want to organize additional ways like audience, product, version, whatever it may be. Give you different angles to access the same content. Taxonomies inside Paligo with a taxonomy manager. It's really simple to use and I'll show you in a second. Additionally, those taxonomies can be used outside of Paligo. You've heard of faceted search or filtered search on the side you'll have various options where you can actually select like deep inside your search results, you can do that as well. So let's go and have a look how taxonomies work inside Paligo. In the content manager, as you know on the left of your Paligo screen, there's taxonomies on the bottom. Like anything else, I do have some taxonomies I click on the arrow and I have my existing taxonomies, but let's create some new ones. And it's actually really simple. What I'm going to do is create the taxonomies and then we are going to assign them or connect them to different parts, real content inside my content manager. So I go to the 3 dots and go create taxonomy tag. Let's create one called products. And there's products. But I want to create product 1 and product 2. So I'm going to create a taxonomy inside products and we'll give it a name. We create planes. Aeroplanes. And not only planes, we go to create taxonomy tag, we create cars as well. There are our two products. And if I want to now assign them to content, I'll go to floating control panel. I'll open my products. And let's go to the recording. So I'm gonna take these first three topics and I'm gonna put them inside car. I'm just clicking the icon by the way, you get a single one. And then I'm gonna take these three as well, and let's put those inside plane. I'll also go to an image. I'll open the media folder, and I'll take this image and I'll put it aside car. Very simple to do. Let's go back to our taxonomies. I'll close the control panel. So if I click on car, you can see that Paligo shows me all the different components inside of the car. It shows my taxonomies. If I want to delete a taxonomy I would just click on the x and it would remove it. And as you might be familiar, when I click on this icon it gives me lots more information which are explained in other videos. When I click on plane I can see the content I've set for plane. What's really important, if I click on products, it shows me the content of both. So each individual taxonomy lower level in the hierarchy for that taxonomy and when you go a step up, you see whatever children there are of that selected taxonomy. Very useful to help you find your content. You can also see the taxonomies when you go into the structure view for a piece of content. So if I go into edit, open structure for that topic, you'll see that it has the taxonomies in car. If I were to click it, it would go back into the window that we've got. There's another place you can see the taxonomies. So we now understand how to set taxonomies and how it can help us navigate to the content that we're looking for. There's more you can do with taxonomies. And I'm gonna briefly show you without going into too much details, but we'll give you the links so you can try them out for yourselves. Just give you the possibilities of taxonomies. This page, in our help, which there's a link you can click on just now, explains how to add top navigation links to topics. In this screen you can see there's the red rectangle. That actually contains a list of topics that have been selected for specific taxonomy that will appear on this page for the help. So if you imagine you've got links to maybe different places in your header like you have, technology center and staff login that we can see in this example. But you also wanna have a quick link to certain places in your help. You can use taxonomies for doing that. It's here, under use taxonomies to add top navigation links. Very briefly, but for full detail, please go through the instructions carefully in the help page we create a top level taxonomy called navigation. Underneath that we'll have top nav link. What we do is we assign top nav link to a number of topics, that will generate that list you saw at the top and it would only show that list of topics that you included in your publication, so for example if you've got a list of 10 topics in the top nav link but only 3 are in this particular publication, then it would only contain the list of those 3 topics. So if I go to navigation in my Paligo I have top nav link and you can see that I have a number of topics in that top nav link. So if I would publish and do the settings in that help page, the list at the top would contain one or multiple of these topics depending on what's in the publication. So that can be useful if you want to have top navigation links. I now want to talk about see also links. Just as a by the way, if you realize that whenever you creat a cross reference between 2 topics, you're actually creating a dependency. That other topic needs to exist for my source topic. And it's a good thing to do cross references but it's not a good thing to overdo it because those dependencies might cause you problems later. So we should think twice and we have another way called see also that actually don't create dependencies and you can create links between topics in that way. This page that you can see, at the bottom I have in this section, which is really just the list of all the children to this topic, but I have see also. See also are links that I've created via taxonomies to anywhere in my help that is relevant to this page. By default they appear here at the bottom but you could also write some JavaScript to move them over here to the top right as well if you like. Maybe you'll find it more useful, it's up to you. Let's have a look at the page where it explains it and we're putting the link on the top so you can have a look yourself. And it's actually quite similar to everything else. What I need to do is to essentially create a parent which I call see also links and another or multiple taxonomies underneath. This one's called battery. And let's have a look in our Paligo for something that I've done before. So I've got see also links here and I've got something called create. You can see there's 3 topics. So let's assume these 3 topics are all in my publication. So if I'm currently in create your first publication, the first topic in the list, the see also would be the following two. If I was in the first topic the see also would be the first and the third on this list. So they are dynamically there if say starting the car wasn't in the publication then it just wouldn't exist in the see also. It's always going to just show you the relevant links from the publication. It saves you hard coding those links and it doesn't result in dependencies either. So the see also can be really useful, again using the simple functionality of taxonomies, but using them in this way. Another use of taxonomies is actually for your end users. Have you ever used things like Amazon before where you can filter your search results? In this page, which is from Palo Alto using Fluid Topics, you can see you can filter for different types of parts of the the whole content architecture. That's technically called faceted search. Maybe we'll just call it filtered search. So we could mark up our different content with different products, different versions, different categories as you can see, and then you can focus your search results for what you're specifically looking for. Those will be taxonomies in Paligo that become these facets or filters in the search. Obviously you want to work with your provider. Whether it's a content delivery platform like Fluid Topics or Zoomin. Whether it's a search engine that we currently integrate with Algolia, SwiftType, or Covio. You can also speak to us about other search engines, Everything's a possibility. Or whether you want to integrate with a search engine - taxonomy manager in Pool Party and other systems like that, you can have these filters coming out. And my personal opinion, this really does help the user experience. It helps your customers find the content they're looking for really quickly. Let's have a look at a quick example of a search. Type in the word user, and on the left hand side you see I can select only to see that particular product. Makes it much easier, especially when you have a lot of content, to find the content you're looking for. Take the taxonomies and they become these filters or facets in the search engines or content delivery platforms. So now you've understood what taxonomies are, you know how they can be used internally and externally. So why don't you go into your Paligo and if you don't have Paligo, speak to us or open a trial for you and start creating your own taxonomies. Think about how you want to organize the content inside Paligo, maybe outside of Paligo as well and start organizing it. Go and have a go. Speak to you soon.