# Categories Fileshelf uses Joomla's categories. You manage them under **Components → Fileshelf → Categories** like article categories – with subcategories, access levels, language and permissions. ## Additional tabs In the form of a category Fileshelf adds two tabs: - **Fileshelf** – a password for all downloads of this category and its subcategories (see *Password protection*). - **Fileshelf: Display** – how the category shows its downloads on the website: as a list with category tree, as cards or as a table.
![The tab Fileshelf: Display with the choice list, table or cards](https://docs.graup-it.de/uploads/images/gallery/2026-11/SdSdoku-07-kategorie-darstellung.png)
The display applies unless the category's menu item chooses otherwise.
Which display applies is decided in this order: the menu item of the category, then the category, then **Options → Display → Layout**. ## The image as icon The image of the category (tab **Options → Image** in the category form) appears small in front of the category's name and next to its heading on the website. ## Access through additional categories Under **Options → Downloads → Access through additional categories** you decide whether only the main category counts for a download (default) or whether the access levels of its additional categories must allow it as well (*Strictest*). ## Deleting A category that still holds downloads cannot be deleted. Move or delete the downloads first. When a category is deleted, Fileshelf also removes it as an additional category from the downloads. [Deutsche Fassung](https://docs.graup-it.de/link/399)