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# Associate a catalog item with a taxonomy topic in Employee Center

# Associate a catalog item with a taxonomy topic in Employee Center {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated January 30, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Associate your existing and new catalog items, knowledge base articles, and quick
links to the appropriate taxonomy topics so that the catalog items are available in the Employee Center as content in the topics or child topics.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## About this task

You must associate your catalog items that you want to display in the Employee Center with a taxonomy topic.

By default, Employee Center application ships employee-centric
taxonomy and taxonomy topics for IT, HR, Workplace, Legal, and Procurement. You can
use the default IT taxonomy to associate your catalog items or you can clone a
taxonomy to make your own additions or modifications to the default topic structure
that matches your requirements. To clone a taxonomy, refer to the steps mentioned in
the [Clone taxonomy for employee
content](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=clone-taxonomy-content&version=yokohama&pubname=yokohama-employee-service-management&ft:locale=en-US) topic.

You can associate your existing or new catalog items with a taxonomy topic directly
from the Content Taxonomy also. To associate your existing or new catalog items with
a taxonomy topic, refer to the steps mentioned in the [Associate connected content
to a topic](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=associate-content-to-topics&version=yokohama&pubname=yokohama-employee-service-management&ft:locale=en-US) topic.

For more information about Unified taxonomy, see [Unified taxonomy for
Employee Center](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=config-taxonomy&version=yokohama&pubname=yokohama-employee-service-management&ft:locale=en-US).

To associate a catalog item from the Service Catalog:

## Procedure

1. Navigate to AllService CatalogCatalog DefinitionMaintain Items.
2. Select the item that you want to associate with a taxonomy topic.
3. In the Assigned Topics related list, click Add.
4. Select the base taxonomy from the Taxonomy list.
5. Select the appropriate topic, for example IT.
6. Select the appropriate child topic from the topic list.  
   For example, to add a laptop, select Hardware, and then Computers.
7. Click OK.

## Result

The catalog item is associated with the selected taxonomy topic and appears on the
Employee Center.

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