New/Edit Custom Category

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Categories are lists of domains (Internet sites) with something in common. Custom Categories are lists that you define. Use Custom Categories to augment the provided System Categories, or to develop new areas of the Internet to block. One Custom Category might contain various sites containing racist, sexist, and other harmful content that you've noticed in user recordings. This would be a "Hate" Category to be blocked.  Another Custom Category might contain your own company domain and other work-related sites employees regularly use that you want to ALLOW.  

To add a category:

  1. Select Management > Categories.

  2. Right-click and select New, or
    Click New on the toolbar. The New Custom Category box opens.

  3. Fill in the fields, as described below.

  4. When you are ready, click Save and Close to save the Category list and return to Custom Category Management.

You can add to and update a Category list even when the Category is currently being used by a Filtering Rule. Your changes are automatically applied to the filter.

To edit an existing category:

Select a category, right-click and select Edit. Change any of the fields

  1. Enter a Category Name, up to 50 characters. This name will appear for selection in Filtering Rules and in Category Groups.  

  2. Enter a Description of the category.

  3. Select a domain or address to add to the category:

Instead of entering or selecting domains one at a time, you can import a list (text file) of domains into a category. See Importing Domains.

  1. Click Add to add the domain or address to the Category list in the right column.

  2. When the Domain list is complete for the category, click Save and Close on the toolbar. The Custom Category will be added to the Categories Management list.

 

Related Topics

Website Filtering

Filtering Rules

System Categories

Importing Domains

Adding Domains as You View Recordings