§Setting up Categories.

You get to the Categories page by clicking Administration » Categories from the menu. The top part of the page shows a list of categories and who is allowed to post in them.

§Creating Categories

To create a category, look at the bottom part of the Categories page. Fill in a short, understandable name. Currently you can only use 'normal letters', numbers and spaces. Unfortunaltely you cannot use international charachters yet. Select the user, or users that are allowed to post in this category (hint: to select more than one user, use Ctrl-click), and click "create category".

Now it's time to make sure your category actually gets published. Though this is described in greater detail on the Setting up Weblogs part of this manual, the shortcut is:

Go to Administration » Weblogs
Select the weblog you want your new category to appear in
Go to the second page of the wizard, and scroll to the subweblog you want your new category to be in
Check the box next to the new category
Finish the wizard

Note: If you want to create a weblog with lots of categories and subweblogs, it's best to create the categories first, then edit the templates to hold the subweblogs, and then run the Administration, Weblogs wizard. Subweblogs and categories won't show up in this wizard if they haven't been created yet (Not that this is really a big surprise...)

§Editing and Deleting Categories

To edit a category, click its name. This will take you to the categories' page. On that page, you can allow or deny users to post to this category, and you can delete it.

If you delete a category, the entries therein are not deleted, nor will they be transferred to another category. Also, it is not yet possible to rename categories. This will change in future versions of Pivot, but for now you would have to manually assign them to another category (if you want them to be published, of course).