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Caution: This documentation is for eZ Publish legacy, from version 3.x to 5.x.

Managing product categories

This part of the 4.x documentation is for eZ Publish 4.0, only reference section is common for all eZ Publish 4.x versions as well as eZ Publish 5.x "LegacyStack", please select the version you are using for the most up to date documentation!

This section describes how you can add, remove and modify product categories using the administration interface.

Creating a product category

The administration interface allows you to add new product categories to the webshop system. The following text reveals how this can be done.

  1.  Click on the "Webshop" tab in the administration interface and select the "Product categories" link on the left. You will be taken to the interface displaying the list of existing product categories as shown in the following screenshot. This interface can also be accessed by requesting "/shop/productcategories" in the URL.
     
    Product Category Interface

    Product Category Interface

  2.  Click on the "New product category" button and specify the desired name for the new category 
  3.  Click on the "Apply changes" button to save your changes or click the "New product category" button to continue adding new categories.

Editing a product category

If you wish to change the name of a product category, do the following:

  1.  Open the list of categories by clicking the "Webshop" tab in the administration interface and selecting the "Product categories" link on the left.
  2.  Edit the name of the product category (this can be done for several categories at the same time).
  3.  Click the "Apply changes" button to save your changes.

Removing a product category

Removing a category that is assigned to your products and/or used by your VAT rules is possible but not recommended. In most cases, you should change the name of the category or VAT rules specified for this category instead of removing it from the system. Removing a category will not result in removing all products that belong to this category. The system will unset the "category" attribute for these products and modify or remove the VAT rules specified for this category.

Example

Let's say that you have the following VAT rules (see the next table).

User country

Product category

VAT type

Any

Chocolate, Coffee, Juice

Norway reduced, 7%

Any

Shampoo

Norway general, 25%

If you remove the "Shampoo" category, the last VAT rule will be removed. If you remove the "Chocolate" category, the first VAT rule will be modified as shown in the following table:

User country

Product category

VAT type

Any

Coffee, Juice

Norway reduced, 7%

The following text reveals how you can remove the product category.

  1.  Open the list of categories by clicking the "Webshop" tab in the administration interface and selecting the "Product categories" link on the left.
  2.  Use the checkboxes to select the categories that you wish to remove.
  3.  Click the "Remove selected" button. If there are products and/or VAT rules assigned to this category, the system will display a removal confirmation dialog. Click "OK" to confirm the removal.
     
     

Svitlana Shatokhina (11/05/2006 12:49 pm)

Ricardo Correia (17/04/2013 2:38 pm)

Svitlana Shatokhina, Geir Arne Waaler, Andrea Melo, Ricardo Correia


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