prasanna.ramesh1

 Profile Answers by prasanna.ramesh1 

• Jul 20th, 2008

 

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.

sreenivas27

 Profile Answers by sreenivas27 

• Aug 10th, 2008

 

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.

Rajnish_kaushal

 Profile Answers by Rajnish_kaushal 

• Apr 13th, 2009

 

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.

Regards


Rajnish Kaushal