Work with categories
The Category Manager manages the category hierarchy by
creating, modifying, and deleting categories. The category hierarchy
organizes products or services offered by the store.
- Create categories
If you are expanding your store inventory or changing your category structure, you might want to add a new category. - Finding categories
You can find a category by browsing or using a simple or advanced find. All searching in the catalogs tool is case sensitive. - Determine whether a category or catalog entry belongs to the catalog asset store
If you are using the extended sites model, you might want to find out which master catalog categories and catalog entries belong to the asset store. Depending on what store the category or catalog entry belongs, the location of the entries can impact how you can manage those entries. For example, your role access might restrict your ability to manage entries in the asset store. - Change categories
You can change the information for a category, including code, name, description, images, and parent category. - Deleting categories
You might want to delete a category if you are changing your inventory or reorganizing your catalog structure, and no longer have any use for that category. You cannot delete a category if there are any associated catalog entries. - Hiding categories
You can hide a category in your catalog so that it does not display to customers, for example, if the category contains out of season merchandise. If you hide a category, the products and SKUs within that category can still be found in a sales catalog or during a search. To hide the products or SKUs, unselect the Display to customers check box in the product or SKU properties views. - Moving categories
You can move a child category to a new parent category in the master catalog for example, if you are getting rid of a category or find that the child category is better defined under a new parent. - Sequencing categories
If you want to change the order in which customers see categories on your site, you can change the display sequence of the category.
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