Creating and Moving Categories

You are the company's catalog administrator, and need to organize catalog content. In this demonstration, you will define the catalog category hierarchy and choose the categories that will be available for catalog browsing. 

In this demonstration you will:

1. Create a top-level browsing category.

2. Add a browsing category and include the relevant item categories.

3. Move an existing category to a new parent category.

4. Attempt to delete a browsing category.

Steps:

1. Create a top level browsing category called Office Furniture under the Root Category.

    

   Click the Create button.

   Step 1

2. You are creating a top-level browsing category called Office Furniture.

    

   In this demonstration, the Category Name, Description, and Image URL were entered for you.

    

   Tab out of the Image URL field to preview the image to be displayed in the shopping home page.

    

   Press [Tab].

   Step 2

3. The image is displayed.

    

   Click the Save and Close button.

   Step 3

4. Now, you will create a browsing category called Home Office Furniture under the Office Furniture browsing category and include the appropriate item categories.

    

   Click the Office Furniture row header.

   Step 4

5. Click the Create button.

   Step 5

6. Enter the desired information into the Category Name field. Enter

    a valid value
    e.g.
    "Home Office Furniture"
   .
   Step 6

7. Enter the desired information into the Description field. Enter

    a valid value
    e.g.
    "Browsing"
   .
   Step 7

8. The Image URL is not needed for browsing categories that are not positioned at the top level of the hierarchy.

    

   Click the Save and Close button.

   Step 8

9. Now, insert two item categories under the Home Office Furniture category.

    

   Click the Expand object.

   Step 9

10. Click the Insert Item Categories button.

    Step 10

11. Enter the desired information into the Category Name field. Enter

     a valid value
     e.g.
     "Desks"
    .
    Step 11

12. Click the Search button.

    Step 12

13. Click the Desks and Tables row header.

    Step 13

14. Click the Apply button.

    Step 14

15. Enter the desired information into the Category Name field. Enter

     a valid value
     e.g.
     "Chairs"
    .
    Step 15

16. Click the Search button.

    Step 16

17. Click the Chairs, Wood row header.

    Step 17

18. Click the Apply button.

    Step 18

19. Click the Done button.

    Step 19

20. Click the Expand object.

    Step 20

21. Verify the item categories were inserted under the Home Office Furniture category.

    Step 21

22. Now, move an existing category to a new parent category.

     

    Click the Expand object.

    Step 22

23. Move the browsing category Notebooks and Binders under the browsing category Desk Supplies.

     

    Click the Notebooks and Binders row header.

    Step 23

24. Click the Move button.

    Step 24

25. Enter the desired information into the Parent Category field. Enter

     a valid value
     e.g.
     "Desk Supplies"
    .
    Step 25

26. As you type, the Desk Supplies parent category appears.

     

    Click the Desk Supplies Parent Category object.

    Step 26

27. Click the Save and Close button.

    Step 27

28. Verify the placement of the Notebooks and Binders category under Desk Supplies.

     

    Click the Expand object.

    Step 28

29. The browsing category Notebooks and Binders is now under the browsing category Desk Supplies.

    Step 29

30. Attempt to delete the Legal category.

     

    Click the Collapse object.

    Step 30

31. Click the Legal row header.

    Step 31

32. Click the Delete button.

    Step 32

33. You cannot delete the category Legal because it is referenced in other catalog objects.

     

    Click the OK button.

    Step 33

34. Check category assignment to see what objects are assigned to the category Legal.

     

    Click the Actions menu.

    Step 34

35. Click the View Category Assignments menu.

    Step 35

36. The category Legal is assigned to two informational catalogs and one local catalog. It cannot be deleted until the association is removed. You must update the catalogs to remove any references to this category.

    Step 36

37. Click the Done button.

    Step 37

This concludes the demonstration for creating and moving categories.

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