Administration
In the normal case the categories from the category table are used. You have to set
$TYPO3_
to be able to use them. Otherwise the pages will be taken for categories and the category will be used as
the subcategory (
= 1) of a page or not used at all but replaced by the page (
= 2).
The only advantage of the latter is that you simply place the records on a page without the need to assign a category.
This has historical reasons when no category tree had been available and because the back end page tree has the better
user guidance.