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Creating Categories
Creating Subcategories
Editing Categories
Adding Products to Categories
Creating Hidden Categories
1. Creating Categories
Note: If in Basic mode (check upper left corner right above Category info tab), switch to “Advanced” in order to have access to all required fields.
From Go to the Catalog > Categories page in Admin, click Add New
Update the following fields:
(Category) Name: This is the name that will appear in the drop-down menu
Parent Category (optional): This creates a subcategory, or a secondary (more specific) grouping that resides under a category.
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Update the following fields under the Mappings section. (It may be collapsed)
Discounts: If discounts have been created and apply to every product within this category, add them here.
Limited to customer roles: If customer roles have been created and only customers with a given role can see this category, assign the role.
Limited to stores: If multiple storefronts map to a single Aspenware Commerce Admin and this category should only display in some, not all, stores, map the desired stores here
Update the following fields under the SEO section. (It may be collapsed)
Add an SEO friendly page name. Only SEO names can be added that do not previously exist
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Add products and reorganize the display order under the Products section. (It may be collapsed)
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NOTE: Products must already be created in order to add them to your category |
Select Add a new product.
Search from the list of products and select products to be added to the category. Click Save to add the selected products to the category.
To reorganize the display order of the products within the category, edit each product, change the display order (highest priority gets the lowest number) and update to save the display order.
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Creating Subcategories
From the Catalog > Categories page in Admin, Add New
Follow the same steps as you would for a Parent Category, BUT select the parent category you would like this to nest under in the “category info” tab
Only use if creating a subcategory. Select the parent category from the list.
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NOTE:Do not add products to a parent category if it has subcategories. If a category has subcategories, products should ONLY be added to the subcategories, not the parent category. |
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3. Editing Categories
From Go to the Catalog > Categories page in Admin, click Edit on the desired category.
From here, follow category creation steps and edit any of the fields defined there.
To edit products that are featured contained in a specific category, see the “Adding Products to Categories” section
4. Adding Products to Categories
Add products and reorganize the display order under the Products section. (It may be collapsed)
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Select Add a new product.
Search from the list of products and select products to be added to the category. Click Save to add the selected products to the category.
To reorganize the display order of the products within the category, edit each product, change the display order (highest priority gets the lowest number) and update to save the display order.
5. Creating Hidden Categories
When setting up renewal products, employee only products, or discounted products that are only available to a small audience, hidden categories can be a nice way to restrict product visibility to only people with a specific URL to access the product.
From Go to the Configuration>Settings>All Settings (advanced) page in Admin, search in Name the desired setting name: catalogsettings.hiddencategories
From here, click edit, and add the category ID(s) in the value field using a comma separated list. Do not include spaces between commas and values.
To find the category ID, from the URL of the parent category notice the number after… .net/#/______. This is the category ID.
HINT: Example: http://test.net/Admin/Category/Edit/63
Click Update and your desired category is now hidden
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6. Deleting Categories
Go to the Catalog>Categories page in Admin.
Find the desired category (e.g. Rentals>>Rental Delivery).
Select the red Delete button in the upper right corner.
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