Add a list of files from a category to a page

You can use categories to organize files into logical groups. For example, you might classify all of the shopping-related files in your web (for example, catalog and product pages in your root web, pictures in the Images folder, and a price database in another folder) in categories called Catalog and Products. You might further categorize your product pages into Small Appliances, Large Appliances, and Outdoor Appliances.

If you've categorized files in your web, you can add dynamic category lists to your web pages. For example, on a shopping page you might insert three lists of products in your Small Appliances, Large Appliances, and Outdoor Appliances categories; site visitors can click a product in any list to display that product's page from your online catalog. As you add or drop products from your product line and add or remove those product pages from your web, or as you recategorize files, the category lists on the shopping page are automatically updated.

1. In Page view, open the page to which you want to add a list of files in a category. On the Insert menu, point to Components, and then click Categories.
2. Under Choose categories to list pages by, select the check boxes of the categories you want to include in the list.
3. In the Sort pages by box, click Date last modified to sort the list by file dates, or Document title to sort the list alphabetically by title or file name.
4. Select any additional information to include in the list, in addition to the document titles:
   • To include the dates that files were last modified, select the Date the page was last modified check box.
   • To include any comments that have been added to the files, select the Comments added to the page check box.

Tips

• If you select multiple categories, the files in the list won't be grouped by category; instead, they'll be sorted together by either the date last modified or the document title. To create individual lists of files in different categories, select only one category in step 2, and then repeat this procedure to create a separate list for each category you want to include on the page.
• You can easily create columns of category lists on a page using tables. Create a two-row table with as many columns as you have categories. Type the name of each category in each cell of the header row, and then use this procedure to add a category list to each of the cells in the second row of the table.