---
title: Associate a catalog item with a taxonomy topic in Employee Center
description: Associate your existing and new catalog items, knowledge base articles, and quick links to the appropriate taxonomy topics so that the catalog items are available in the Employee Center as content in the topics or child topics.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/associate-cat-item-taxonomy-ec.html
release: australia
product: Service Catalog
classification: service-catalog
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Service Catalog in Employee Center portal, Integrating Service Catalog, Service Catalog, Manage service capabilities, Extend ServiceNow AI Platform capabilities]
---

# Associate a catalog item with a taxonomy topic in Employee Center

Associate your existing and new catalog items, knowledge base articles, and quick links to the appropriate taxonomy topics so that the catalog items are available in the Employee Center as content in the topics or child topics.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## About this task

You must associate your catalog items that you want to display in the Employee Center with a taxonomy topic.

By default, Employee Center application ships employee-centric taxonomy and taxonomy topics for IT, HR, Workplace, Legal, and Procurement. You can use the default IT taxonomy to associate your catalog items or you can clone a taxonomy to make your own additions or modifications to the default topic structure that matches your requirements. To clone a taxonomy, refer to the steps mentioned in the [Clone taxonomy for employee content](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/employee-service-management/clone-taxonomy-content.md) topic.

You can associate your existing or new catalog items with a taxonomy topic directly from the Content Taxonomy also. To associate your existing or new catalog items with a taxonomy topic, refer to the steps mentioned in the [Associate connected content to a topic](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/employee-service-management/associate-content-to-topics.md) topic.

For more information about Unified taxonomy, see [Unified taxonomy for Employee Center](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/employee-service-management/config-taxonomy.md).

To associate a catalog item from the Service Catalog:

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Service Catalog** > **Catalog Definition** > **Maintain Items**.

2.  Select the item that you want to associate with a taxonomy topic.

3.  In the Assigned Topics related list, click **Add**.

4.  Select the base taxonomy from the **Taxonomy** list.

5.  Select the appropriate topic, for example **IT**.

6.  Select the appropriate child topic from the topic list.

    For example, to add a laptop, select **Hardware**, and then **Computers**.

7.  Click **OK**.


## Result

The catalog item is associated with the selected taxonomy topic and appears on the Employee Center.

**Parent Topic:**[Service Catalog in Employee Center portal](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/service-catalog-in-ec.md)