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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 in the master catalog
If you are expanding the store inventory or changing the category structure, you can add categories to the master catalog.
- Changing categories
You can change the information for a category, including code, name, description, images, and parent category.
- Delete categories
You might want to delete a category if you are changing the inventory or reorganizing the catalog structure, and no longer have any use for that category. You cannot delete a category if there are any associated catalog entries.
- Hide categories
You can hide a category in the 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.
- Move 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.
- Sequence categories
To change the order in which customers see categories on the site, you can change the display sequence of the category.
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IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce