Edit a Category

This article applies to organisations with a 'Hybrid' setup (both On-Premise Appliance and Cloud), as well as On-Premise only and Cloud only setups.

 

Categories are used to group URLs, domains, search phrases, file types or video IDs to base filtering policies on. You can edit our built-in Standard categories, or Custom Categories you have set up.

Edit a Custom Category

If you have a Hybrid setup (both Cloud and On-Premise Appliance), you can manage your Custom Categories and Web Filter Policies in either place. To sync, log out of the On-Premise Appliance, or in Cloud go to Filter > Publishing and select Publish.

Important

If you have a multi-tenant configuration, you can't change the tenant assigned to a category, as that category might form part of a category group or tenant-specific policy.

 

On-Premise Appliance

  1. Go to Guardian > Policy Objects > Categories.
  2. Go to the Categories section.
  3. Find the category that you want to amend and select the pencil icon.
  4. Edit the category in the Manage categories section.
  5. Select Save.

Cloud Filter

  1. Go to Filter > Custom categories.
  2. Find the category that you want to amend and select Edit.
  3. Make edits as needed.
  4. Select the tabs to add new items or remove items by selecting Delete.
  5. Select Close to return to the Custom categories page.
  6. Go to Publishing from the left-hand menu and select Publish.

Edit a Standard category

You can’t edit the default Standard categories in Cloud Filter.

You can’t see what is included in our default Standard categories in On-Premise Appliance. However, you can add additional items to them if necessary.

Note

Don’t edit the existing Standard categories to manage your blocklists unless detailed in our guidance, such as for YouTube.

  1. Sign in to your On-Premise Appliance.
  2. Go to Guardian > Policy Objects > Categories.
  3. In the Categories section, select the + icon next to Standard Categories.
  4. Select the pencil icon to edit the category.
  5. Add items as needed, then select Save.

A star icon now appears next to the name in the Categories section, indicating that the category has been edited from the default.