Enable default application categories to streamline initial app classification while preserving manual override flexibility.

Today, application categorization requires manual selection for each app, which can lead to inconsistency, increased administrative effort, and delayed standardization across the environment. This feature would introduce a PMPC defined set of default categories that can be automatically applied to all applications as a baseline. Administrators would be able to define one or more default categories at the All Custom Products or All Products tree, which would be applied upon app creation or deployment.

These defaults would serve as a starting point only and would not be enforced—admins would retain full ability to override, modify, or remove categories on a per-application basis, consistent with current behavior. This approach would improve consistency, reduce repetitive configuration tasks, and accelerate onboarding of new applications while maintaining full flexibility for edge cases and exceptions.

Ideally, this would also support optional rules or mappings (e.g., by publisher, app type, or deployment source) in future iterations, but the initial requirement is a simple default baseline assignment mechanism.