You delete a category when it is no longer necessary. If a page or item is still assigned to a category when it is deleted, the page or item is re-assigned to the General category.
You
must be a page group or Portal administrator to delete a category.
Access the Navigator and click Page Groups.
Click Contents next to the name of the page group from which you want to delete a category.
Note: If your category is shared across multiple page groups, click Contents next to Shared Objects. You must be a portal administrator or have Manage privileges to delete shared objects.
Click Categories. If the list of categories is very long, you can use Find to go directly to the desired category.
If you are deleting a child category, click Sub-Categories next to the parent category until you see the child category that you want to delete.
Next to the category that you want to delete, click Delete. A confirmation message appears.
Click Yes.
If you delete a parent category, all of it's child categories are deleted as well. If a page or item is still assigned to a category when it is deleted, the page or item is re-assigned to the shared General category.
What is a category?
Creating categories
Editing categories
Adding category and perspective information to
a page