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Category and Folder Difference

what is the major difference between a folder and a category......when both are for organising the documents

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Last Update: April 14, 2009 Asked by: Sindhunarayana

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Submitted by: prasanna.ramesh1

folders and categorys provide a way of organizing documents and bi contents.
folders provide physical storage location of file as well as mean to navigate content.
categorys provide navigation only.
a file must be stored in a folder but it does not have to be assined a category.
one document can be assigned to multiple categorys.but one document must be
reside in one folder only.

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July 20, 2008 06:49:54

prasanna.ramesh1

Member Since: July 2008 Contribution: 7

RE: Category and Folder Difference

folders and categorys provide a way of organizing documents and bi contents.
folders provide physical storage location of file as well as mean to navigate content.
categorys provide navigation only.
a file must be stored in a folder but it does not have to be assined a category.
one document can be assigned to multiple categorys.but one document must be
reside in one folder only.

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August 10, 2008 10:04:10

sreenivas27

Member Since: November 2007 Contribution: 15

RE: Category and Folder Difference

Hi
Content in BO enterprise can be organized into folders and categories.
Folders are the primary method of oraganizing content.
Every report or document must reside in a folder.
Areport or document can only reside in one folder. Object level rights are either set explicitly for the object or inherited from the folder in which the object resides.
The difference between folders and categories is that a docuemnt always resides in a folder as storage location but it may or may not be assigned to a category as a method of classificaton.
Category rights do not inherit to the objects that are assigned the category.

I hope ur understand ....

Regards

Sreeni.

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April 13, 2009 18:32:31

Rajnish_kaushal

Member Since: April 2009 Contribution: 10

RE: Category and Folder Difference

For interview purpose one line answer is " Categories are Logical way of structuring the contents. But Folders are logical and Physical way of structuring the contents. Contents belonging to category a may be stored in more than one folder. Also inheritance doesn't work exactly same as it is for folder. "

My experience says stay away from categories when at client site. Use folders for organizing the contents. Categories are only there to have backward compatibility with vesion 6.x.

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Rajnish Kaushal

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