--- schema_version: "1" id: a58587a6674f3e7dff0f93961bdecb3a071826adbe9438dc57531643f855b15f title: Understanding Content Taxonomy collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/xcloud/264-0-0/cms_taxonomy_overview.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.cms_taxonomy_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 04f9a7002580e499e422ba77c8d37dfe0e809e49c3977a36eee58be2d2eb6a72 description: A taxonomy is a hierarchy of terms used to classify CMS content. The terms are organized in parent and child relationships, and they describe what the content is or how the content is used. products: - Salesforce CMS - Cross Cloud release: "264" --- # Understanding Content Taxonomy A taxonomy is a hierarchy of terms used to classify CMS content. The terms are organized in parent and child relationships, and they describe what the content is or how the content is used. ### Required Editions
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Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
In the Digital Experiences app, a taxonomist creates a content taxonomy and defines its structure. The taxonomist manages taxonomies for their organization by ensuring that all terms and term relationships are regularly updated and correctly maintained. Then, from the CMS content page, a CMS content admin or manager applies those terms as tags to enhanced CMS content. Use content taxonomy to: - Improve organization: Content is categorized systematically so that management and retrieval is straightforward and efficient. - Enhance discoverability: With well-defined categories, content is easier to find, benefiting content managers and their audiences. - Track performance: Track how different types of content perform to improve strategic decision-making. To work with content taxonomies in the Digital Experiences app, from the Digital Experiences Home tab, click ![down arrow image](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-communities_managed_content-264-0-0-production-enus/8b149fc1-875c-4018-8e9e-2843a2196457/communities_managed_content/images/cms_down_arrow.png), and then click **Content Taxonomy**.![The Digital Experience Home tab is highlighted. First select the down arrow to show the menu, then select Content Taxonomy.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-communities_managed_content-264-0-0-production-enus/8b149fc1-875c-4018-8e9e-2843a2196457/communities_managed_content/images/taxonomy_tab.jpg) ## The difference between terms and tags Terms and tags sound like similar things, but they’re different. Terms exist in the content taxonomy hierarchy, while tags are used in CMS content Terms are specific labels or categories within a content taxonomy used by content taxonomists to classify information. Terms are organized in a hierarchical structure of parent and child relationships known as a content taxonomy tree. Tags are the practical applications of terms, used by content admins and managers to associate CMS content with taxonomy terms. Tagging content makes it discoverable and manageable across various content areas. Terms and tags work together to categorize content. By tagging content with specific taxonomy terms, you can ensure that the content is included in dynamic collections, which are search-based results that gather content from multiple workspaces connected to a channel. ## Considerations for Managing Terms When you add a new term, it’s automatically assigned a unique term ID. The term ID can’t be customized or changed. Taxonomy terms are organized into taxonomy paths, which is the term’s relationship to the top level taxonomy and its parents. When a term has child terms, you can delete the term and its children, or you can delete the term and reassign its children to another term. When you delete a term from the content taxonomy, it’s no longer available as a content tag. Removing the tag from a content record can affect content personalization. Before you delete a term, remove the tag from the content associated with the term. ![Example](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-communities_managed_content-264-0-0-production-enus/8b149fc1-875c-4018-8e9e-2843a2196457/images/icon_example.png) Example Bob, a taxonomist, creates a parent taxonomy named Sport Memorabilia. He creates the terms jerseys, trophies, and signed photos, and then he organizes them as child terms to the Sports Memorabilia taxonomy. Then, Sheng, a content admin, tags images of jerseys with the jerseys tag. Sheng publishes the content with the tags. - **[Create a Content Taxonomy and Manage Terms](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.cms_taxonomy_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Each org can have one, overarching content taxonomy. Create a new taxonomy, or use Data Loader to import an existing taxonomy. Then, add, edit, delete, and view terms in a content taxonomy.