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So I was playing around with the Promoted Links app and I figured that I could use it as a sort of work-around way to add something that would function as a categories app in terms of appearance and function. But when I go to add a Promoted Links web-part there isn't one available.
Why isn't it available and how do I get it?
As I understand it, when you add a web-part or app-part you are creating an embedded version of an existing app rather than a brand new app. So while they are very functional by themselves, in many cases you can't add an web/app-part to a page if that app does not already exist in the same site/sub-site.
If you create a Promoted Links list (even if you hide it) then you can add a app/web-part to your page. One thing to note though is that the web-part/app-part that you add will be linked to the source app. So if you plan on adding several of them to various pages, a good practice would be to create views in the original Promoted Links list for what you want to show on each page you add the web-part/app-part to. That way you can use the one list for everywhere.
To my knowledge there are typically 2 reasons why you can't create a promoted links app/list.
you must enable team collaboration lists feature
if you use a custom master page, make sure that the following place holders are being rendered
asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server"
asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"
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