Master Categories enables you to create a single classification system for your data that you can use across all your projects. In this way, you can set how your information is grouped once and use those classifications across the whole of activeCollab.
From a freshly installed copy of activeCollab you’ll only get a single defined category - General. To add new ones, visit the Administration > Master Categories area, where you can set up all the categories you want. You are also free to remove the General category by clicking the delete icon. However if you don’t create a new category in it's place, activeCollab will retain the General category so there is always at least one category. That's why you may still see the General category in your projects (but not in the Master Categories list) as activeCollab must always have at least one category defined. On the other hand, if you remove General and create a new category, the newly created category will be displayed.
In the Master Category setup you are free to create as many categories as you wish and there is no limit to the number of categories allowed by activeCollab.
Items that can be placed in Categories in activeCollab are Pages, Tickets, Files and Discussions. In the Master Category section you can also create different sets of categories for each type of project item. You can learn how to create such setup in this tutorial.
Newly created Categories are applied only to new projects. They will not work retrospectively, and will not be included in any existing projects in activeCollab, which is why you may wish to define all your major categories when first using the system.
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