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# Categories and topics

Categories are the choices a customer is offered. Topics are the diagnostics behind them. Together they are the shape of the conversation.

**This page will cover**

* Adding, renaming and reordering categories
* Category properties, including how a category is matched from what someone types or says
* Adding topics, and moving one between categories
* Topic properties
* Self-service categories, and hiding a category from one channel
