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description: Structure your Experience Cloud site’s content and help your users find what they need with navigational topics. If your org uses data categories, community managers can link current Salesforce Knowledge articles associated with those categories to each navigational topic. If data categories aren’t enabled, administrators can add articles to each topic using Connect REST API.
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# Set Up Navigational Topics

Structure your Experience Cloud site’s content and help your users find what they need with navigational topics. If your org uses data categories, community managers can link current Salesforce Knowledge articles associated with those categories to each navigational topic. If data categories aren’t enabled, administrators can add articles to each topic using Connect REST API.

### Required Editions

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              Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d43157e73 ">To access Experience Workspaces or Experience Management page:</td>

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              <p>Manage Experiences</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p>Create and Set Up Experiences</p>
              <p>AND</p>
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                a member of the site</p>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d43157e73 ">To set up navigational topics:</td>

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              <p>Create Topics</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Edit Topics</p>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d43157e73 ">To add articles to topics:</td>

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              <p>View Data Categories</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Read on related article types</p>
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1. From Setup, enter Topics for Objects in the Quick Find box, then select **Topics for Objects**.
    
    1. In Classic Knowledge, enable topics for all the article types you want to include.
    2. In Lightning Knowledge, enable topics for Knowledge.
    
    ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_note.png)
    
    Note Enabling topics disables public tags on articles. Personal tags aren’t affected.
2. Open Experience Workspaces.
3. In Experience Workspaces, access navigational topics by clicking **Content Management** | **Topics** | **Navigational Topics**.
4. In the text box at right, enter a topic name, and click **Add**. Want to add subtopics? After you add a topic, choose your topic from the dropdown menu (under Show subtopics of). To add a subtopic, add another topic and click **Add**. You can add up to two levels of subtopics for each parent topic.
5. If your org uses data categories, hover over the navigational topic name, and click ![Add articles icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/communities_add_articles.png). Select a Data Category Group, then select the categories you want to add to the topic, and click **Add Articles & Close Window**.
    
    ![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_important.png)
    
    Important This process adds only current articles to a topic. To add new articles, return to Experience Workspaces and repeat the previous step.
6. Hover over a topic name, and click ![Edit topic icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/communities_edit_topics.png). Then click **Upload banner image** and select an image that appears across the top of the topic page.
    
    Banner images are scaled to 1400 x 180 pixels. To prevent distortion, create image files with those dimensions.
    
    To ensure guest users can see navigational topic images in your site, select Let guest users view asset files and CMS content available to the site in **Administration** | **Preferences** in Experience Workspaces. This selection also allows guest users to see images associated with recognition badges, site branding, and account branding.
7. Repeat steps 4–6 to create several navigational topics for your site. Then click **Save**.
8. Use subtopics to further categorize your content. Associate articles for each set of subtopics for a more granular organization.
    
    This table shows the maximum number of navigational topics and subtopics you can create in the UI of a Customer Service site.
    
     
    | Level | Maximum Number of Entries |
    | --- | --- |
    | One (parent) | 25 |
    | Two (subtopic) | 10 |
    | Three (subtopic) | 10 |
    
    With Connect REST API or Connect in Apex, you can create an additional five levels, each with 10 subtopics, for a total of 2,775 navigational topics.

![Tip](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_tip.png)

Tip To edit navigational topics, hover over a topic name.

- To move a topic up or down, click the arrows at left.
- To rename or remove a topic, change its banner image, or remove assigned articles, click ![Edit topic icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/communities_edit_topics.png).

#### See Also

- [See Your Site’s Topics and Subtopics in One Place](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_topic_catalog.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You’ve gone through the exhaustive task of adding topics and various levels of subtopics to your Experience Cloud site’s content. Now you want your site members to see all the organized topics in one place, so they can navigate to any subject their hearts desire. Fear not! They can see everything in your site’s topic catalog.")