Categories and Channel Order
Categories are how subscribers browse; order is what they see first. Both are set once, centrally, and every playlist, portal and app follows.
Categories
Categories manages four tabs — Streams, Movies, Series, Radio — with drag-and-drop ordering in each. A category has a name, its content type (fixed once created), and an adult flag: on MAG boxes, adult-flagged categories sit behind the device’s PIN.
Categories nest — a parent can hold children, so Sport can contain Football and Motorsport while staying one branch in every app’s browse view. Content joins categories from its own edit screens, or in bulk through the mass editors and the import review queue.
Channel order
Channel Order sets the global numbering — the order channels appear in playlists and apps, across the same four tabs. Drag to arrange; the numbering follows.
Two practical notes: bouquet order comes first — subscribers see bouquets in bouquet order, then channels in channel order within each — and on very large catalogues (past fifty thousand streams) the drag screen steps aside in favour of the mass editors, which handle bulk moves without asking a browser to render the entire line-up.
Categories decide where content lives; watch folders can decide it automatically as files arrive — next.