You can assign products to categories from the product editor and from a category
page.
Note: You can unassign a product
from a category in the same way.
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Select
site > Merchant Tools >
Products and Catalogs > Products.
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Select a product.
Assigning a variation master or variation group to a category assigns all variation
products to that category. You can also assign just one variation product to a category
without assigning the variation master.
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Lock the
product.
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Click the Categories tab.
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On the Product page Categories tab, the categories that are listed are already
assigned.
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To assign or deselect categories, click Edit Categories and then
select or deselect categories from the category tree.
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If there are no categories (or appropriate categories) listed, click Edit
Categories to assign a category. (You can make multiple category assignments
from one page this way.) Using this interface you can:
- Search for a category
- Expand and contract the category tree
- Select one or more categories
- Click Apply when you are finished.
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On the product details page, Categories tab, you can specify which category is used for
the product attribute set, and which is used on the storefront.
Table 1.
Option |
Description |
Classification |
This category defines the attribute set of the product. |
Primary |
This category is the default category used to define the attributes that
appear when the product is accessed from outside a category. For example, based
on a direct search or a product number or ID. |
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Click a radio button in the Primary column and click
Apply.
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You can also assign products to a category in the Catalogs module (select
site > Products and Catalogs > Catalogs >
catalog
).
If you are using the drag user interface, you can't assign
classification
versus primary
categories. Instead, you
make the selection in the Products module.
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In the Products section, click Assign. A list of all the
products in the current catalog appears:
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On the Select products page, select products you want to assign to the
category.
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Use the checkboxes to select specific products.
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Click Select.
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To select all products on a page and click Select, then
click the Select All link.
You click Select before navigating to a new page of
products. If you want to select larger groups of products, change the number of
products shown per page by clicking 100 or 1000.