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Categories
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The deals in CM Live Can can be assigned to categories. With categories, users can search for the interesting deals easily.

In your back-end, go to Components -> CM Live Deal to access CM Live Deal component.

.. image:: ../images/com_cmlivedeal_menu.jpg

On the toolbar, you click "Categories" to access the list of categories in Category Manager.

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Click "New" button on the toolbar to create a new category.

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There are only 3 fields that you need to set:

* **Title**: The name of your new category.
* **Parent**: The parent category of your new category.
* **Status**: Status of the category, you always set it to "Published" most of the time.

.. image:: ../images/category_form.jpg

After saving the new category, it is displayed in your category list.

.. image:: ../images/category_list_saved.jpg