---
title: Create and associate topics
description: Create topics that you want to associate with the new or cloned taxonomy.
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release: australia
product: Employee Experience Foundation
classification: employee-experience-foundation
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Unified Taxonomy for Employee Center, Setup Employee Center browse experience features, Configuring Employee Center, Employee Center, Unified Employee Experience, Employee Service Management]
---

# Create and associate topics

Create topics that you want to associate with the new or cloned taxonomy.

## Before you begin

When you have a lot of topics, ensure you set up user criteria for your topics.

Role required: taxonomy\_admin

User criteria required: Taxonomy Manager, Taxonomy Contributor, Topic Manager, Topic Contributor.

## Procedure

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

2.  Click **New**.

3.  On the form, fill in the fields.

    For more information on the fields and description, see [Topic form](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/topic-form.md).

    **Note:** For better topic discovery and search results, avoid special character **/** and ensure you re-index the content after topic name edits.

4.  Select **Enable user preference check** to set topic-level visibility and security.

    **Important:** The Topic-based access control is available for Yokohama family release and beyond. For more information, see [Enable user criteria for topics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/enable-user-criteria-topics.md).

    \[Omitted image "associate-topics-tabs.png"\] Alt text: Associating topic to the related tabs

    **Note:** This image is for illustration purpose only. Tab display depends on your implementation.

    For more information, see [Enable user criteria for topics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/enable-user-criteria-topics.md).

    **Note:** When you clone or move a topic, the associated guided self-service also is cloned or moved accordingly.

5.  Click **Submit**.

    **Note:** Topics are visible only when content is associated with it.


## What to do next

Create child topics for the parent topic. For more information, see [Create a child topic](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/create-child-topics-for-parent.md). Go to the tabs to associate the topic appropriately.

You can review and manage content updates and outdated connected content from the notification and tabs. For more information, see [Manage connected content from topic pages](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/mnge-content-topics.md).

**Related topics**  


[Taxonomy and connected content](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/track-new-content.md)

[Associate connected content to a topic](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/associate-content-to-topics.md)

[Enable user criteria for topics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/enable-user-criteria-topics.md)