# Editing a Taxonomy Walkthrough

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations/editing-a-taxonomy-walkthrough |
| **course_slug** | taxonomy-foundations |
| **lesson_slug** | editing-a-taxonomy-walkthrough |
| **learning_path_slug** | contentstack-developer-certification |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations/editing-a-taxonomy-walkthrough.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-05-22T14:37:41.436Z |

> Lesson in **[Taxonomy Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations)** within the **contentstack-developer-certification** learning path on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** Editing A Taxonomy2
- **Duration:** 1m 22s
- **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/Xy8ZLX3e
- **Publish date (unix):** 1716059980

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#### Video transcript

Let's make some changes to an existing taxonomy. Currently we have a superhero taxonomy defined, and in the superhero taxonomy, we have superhero powers, and one power called flight. What if I wanted to change that to flying? Let's see how we can do that. So go into settings, and in settings, taxonomy. Over here in taxonomy, open superhero taxonomy, open the superhero powers, and here you see flight. Let's go ahead and select that. You can see that I can currently now change my term name to flying. However, my term UID is already set, and it's read-only. This is similar to content types, where we cannot change the name of certain fields in the content type because we don't want to break it, and that's the same idea here. So we can change the display name, but we don't want to change the UID because that could break other things. So just to be safe, what we can allow now is to change the term name, so our marketing teams can use the word flying instead of flight, but our code is going to use flight still because that's the UID that was created once we created this the first time. Hopefully this makes sense, and you can understand why we've made these choices and how easy it is to update the display names, but yet the underlying UIDs will always stay the same. Thank you.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Editing a Taxonomy Walkthrough** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

## Supplement for indexing

### Content summary

Editing a Taxonomy Walkthrough. Editing a Taxonomy Walkthrough in Taxonomy Foundations (taxonomy-foundations).

### Retrieval tags

- Editing
- Taxonomy
- Walkthrough
- taxonomy-foundations
- lesson 10
- Editing a Taxonomy Walkthrough
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Parent course slug: taxonomy-foundations. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present.
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### External links

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| Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` |
| Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` |
| Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |