---
title: Clone taxonomy for employee content
description: Clone the taxonomy that is provided out-of-the-box to make your own additions or modifications to the provided topic structure that aligns to your unified portal needs.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/clone-taxonomy-content.html
release: australia
product: Employee Experience Foundation
classification: employee-experience-foundation
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Unified Taxonomy for Employee Center, Setup Employee Center browse experience features, Configuring Employee Center, Employee Center, Unified Employee Experience, Employee Service Management]
---

# Clone taxonomy for employee content

Clone the taxonomy that is provided out-of-the-box to make your own additions or modifications to the provided topic structure that aligns to your unified portal needs.

## Before you begin

Role required: taxonomy\_admin

## About this task

By default, Employee Center application ships employee-centric taxonomy and taxonomy topics for IT, HR, Workplace, Legal, and Procurement.

\[Omitted image "taxonomy-default.png"\] Alt text: Default taxonomy that is shipped

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Content Taxonomy** > **Taxonomies**.

2.  Click the default **Employee** taxonomy.

3.  Click **Clone**.

4.  Enter the **New Taxonomy Name** in the dialog box that appears and click **OK**.

    This copies the taxonomy and its contents to the new taxonomy. Optionally, you can manually create a taxonomy and add your topics. For more information, see, [Create taxonomy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/create-taxonomy-content.md)

5.  Modify the taxonomy content and click **Update**.

6.  Associate all existing and new content to the cloned taxonomy topics.

7.  Associate the taxonomy to the portal that is created.

8.  Deactivate the existing taxonomy so that the search configurations pick up the content from the new taxonomy.