The CategoryService is found under a station’s Services container. You use a station’s CategoryService to add categories and assign objects (components, files, and histories) to those categories.
For an overview of station security including categories, see Security model overview, and categories.
Apart from being the container for child categories, the CategoryService has only two slots:
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Update Time
A property that sets the interval at which ancestor permissions are automatically assigned. Default value is one (1) minute. If assigned a zero value, this feature is disabled.
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Update
An action to manually force ancestor permissions to be assigned to objects in the station.
Typically, you leave the service’s update time at default, and use the update action only if needed while testing (while actively
assigning categories and/or changing permissions).
The two unique views of the CategoryService are:
The CategoryBrowser is the default view, and typically where you spend more time after initially creating categories.
In the case of components, you can also make category assignments directly from any component’s CategorySheet view. See Category Sheet.