Introduction

The Categories section lists the kinds of all the products in the store.

Categories

Figure 1 shows the Categories listing page under the admin>Catalog >Categories section.

Figure 1 Categories listing page

The left of the dialog box displays the category tree of all existing categories in the store and displays their relationship to one another. The right one displays all the sub-categories of the category selected in the left one, if there are.

By the way, you may also use right-click shortcuts in the left box to edit, delete a selected category, and add sub-categories to any category. Move a category by selecting and dragging it to the target parent category on the left. To disassociate one category with another, click and drag it back to the sensible position.

• Edit/Add categories
  Figure 2 and Figure 3 show the iPod&Cameralisting page under the admin>Catalog>Categories>iPod&Camera edit section.

Figure 2 iPod&Camera General listing page

Figure 3 iPod&Camera Meta Info listing page

1. Parent category. The field is not editable in the editing page of this selected category.
2. Define the name of the category which reflects the common features of all the products added into the category.
3. Use Browser to upload an image for this category. The image had better be representative.
4. Input the sort order. If missed, the default value would be "0".
5. Page Title, Keywords and Description of the category. The Page Title will display in the browser’s title bar when this category is being viewed. Keywords and Description will show in the tag of the category’s HTML source.
6. Select "Save" to implement the action.

• Move a category
  To move one category into another parent category, click the "move graphic tool” in its row. Choose a new category in Figure 4 as the target parent category. Figure 1 and Figure 4 show the process of moving Monitors to Computer in Figure 1.
  In Figure 1 click the "move graphic tool” in Monitors’s row. Then the modal window Figure 4 presents itself.


Figure 4 Move Categories listing page

To move one or several categories, select it/them and click "Move" in the tool bar instead.

• Delete a category
  Note:
  If the category has products within it, you should be careful to delete the category because both the category and all the products assigned to it will be deleted, for products that are assigned to this ONE category only, deleting this category means deleting the products together. For those to more than this category, it means deleting the assignment between. That is, those products will belong to other categories, but not the to-be-deleted one.
• Refresh the present page
• See the category number in the down-right corner
• Hide/Display a column

Unfamiliar with operations, or functions of a button? See Common Button Operations.