Let's start with creating an example category.
Press Categories and then New in the top left corner. You will see a page:
Short description:
- Title – enter a name of category
- Alias – enter an alternative name of category or leave it blank
- Parent - select parent category for the new category, if needed
- Tags – assign tags to content items. Tag names must be unique.
- Published – choose yes/no if you want to publish category or not
- Access - choose the access level group that is allowed to see this item
- Permissions - set the permissions for the access level groups
- Language - assign the language to this item, if multilingual site
See an example list of categories: