Managing Apps : Organizing Apps in Categories : Adding a Category
Adding a Category
You can create the following types of categories:
*Normal categories into which the apps are assigned manually.
*Smart categories into which the apps are sorted automatically according to specific filter criteria. This requires that the option Smart Filter has been defined in the category details.
Each newly added category is immediately shown in the grid view of the All Applications page. On the App Store page, however, a new category is only shown after an app has been assigned to the category. Keep in mind that on the mobile device, a category shows only the app versions which have been built for the platform on which your device is running.
To add a category
1. Click .
2. Do one of the following:
*In the list view (), click and then Add Category.
*Or in the grid view (), click .
3. On the resulting page, specify the following information:
Option
Description
Name
Type a name for the new category.
Custom order
Select a number from 0 through 99 to define the sequence in which you want to present your categories. For example, you have 3 categories. The category with the number 0 is shown as the very first category. The category with the number 20 is shown as the second category. And the category with the number 60 is shown as the last category. When you now add a new category that you want to show directly after the first category in the list, you can define any number from 1 through 19 for that category.
If you want to arrange your categories alphabetically, just use the same number (for example, 50) for all of them.
Icon
Click Browse to select an icon that is to be shown in front of the category name. This should be a PNG file with a size of 96 x 96 pixels. On a mobile device, the icon will be shown on the start page.
Description
Optional. Type a description of the category. On a mobile device, this description will be shown on the start page of the app store client, below the category name.
Background color
By default, the background color for a category is white (#FFFFFF). The background color is only shown in the app store client on a mobile device, on the start page which lists the available categories.
Click this text box if you want to select a background color from a drop-down menu or type the HTML code for the color (for example, #FFFF00 for yellow). The currently defined color is always shown to the right of the text box.
Overlay image
Optional. Click Browse to define an image that is to be used as a teaser. This should be a PNG file with the appropriate size for the native devices (for example, a width of 1080 pixels for iPhone 6). This image is only shown on the mobile device, on the start page. If defined, the overlay image is shown instead of the category name, description and background color.
Smart Filter
Optional. Use this option to define a smart category into which the apps are sorted automatically according to the filter criteria that you define here.
If you need help, click the ? button which is shown to the right of the text box. For more details, see the query language reference at https://github.com/wvanbergen/scoped_search/wiki/query-language.
The smart categories are only shown in the grid view of the All Applications page.
If you notice that you have selected a wrong icon or overlay image, just click Browse and select a different file.
4. Click Create App Category.
The resulting page informs you that the new category does not yet contain any apps. A link is provided for adding one. See also Adding an App.
If you want to add already existing apps to the new category, you have to edit the app and define the category. See Editing an App.
Copyright © 2014-2015 Software AG, Darmstadt, Germany.

Product LogoContact Support   |   Community   |   Feedback