Categories enable you to logically organize document types in Perceptive Content and Interact Desktop.
The Navigation pane displays categories under the list of available folders. Documents not assigned to a folder or a category are grouped together.
In Interact Desktop, you can create a category of document types in Management Console. When you create a category, you can assign a specific color to that category. In addition to defining a color, you can organize the document types within a category so that they appear in the order that your users want to see them. In the Navigation pane, = Interact Desktop displays the name and color of each category, as well as a number that indicates the number of documents assigned to a category based on the current context. The Navigation pane only displays categories with documents assigned to them. When you create a category to display in Interact Desktop, Perceptive Content displays the category as a document type list in Perceptive Content.