2. Category Management

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Store Manager for Magento's Category Management Tree greatly facilitates the arrangement, and, or, re-arrangement of your Products. Its user-friendly interface is ease of use on the back-end, and easy Category and Product navigation for your Customers, and Visitors to your Store, on the front-end.

Store Manager for Magento allows you to specify, modify, move, or remove Categories, and adjust all tree structure and sub-structure. Store Manager meets your need for a simple and convenient Category Management utility.

You can browse your Category Tree with drag-and-drop methods. It requires only a few clicks to make changes, and greatly simplifies this operation.

Categories grid

Before beginning the management of your Magento Categories, be sure to first select the Website, Store, and, or Store View to which you would like to make your Category adjustments. This is required, as Magento allows you to create multiple Websites, Stores and Views. You can make your selection in the Store Views section.

Choose View

* Note that this drop-down only allows for selection of your Website, Store, or View that you will perform your operations on. You will not be able to add or edit additional Websites, Stores, or Store Views within this drop-down.

Basic Operations

To perform basic operations, such as adding, editing, or deleting Categories, use the Categories toolbar.

Basic operations

Or use any Category's Context Menu (accessed by right-clicking on the relevant Category):

Context Menu

The Context Menu allows you to quickly perform the following basic operations:

Refresh Data

1. [Refresh] data, which forces a Category List update. It is useful when you're changing connections, or have any doubts that the most up-to-date data is being displayed.

Add Category

2. [Add category] calls a blank "Edit Category" form, which is used to create a new Category (please refer to the Edit Category dialog page's description below).

Edit Category

3. To edit a category, double-click it, or use the [Edit selected category] button, which calls the "Edit Category" form for the highlighted category (please see below for applicable options).

Delete Category

4. You can also delete a selected Category and its subcategories, from your store.

Pay attention, as you won't be able to undo this operation unless you've made a database backup, which you will have to subsequently restore.

5. If you want to see all categories that are available in Store Manager, go to Categories section on the left side and press the [Expand/Collapse Tree] button in the categories' toolbar, and your store category tree will be displayed.

6. To rebuild category tree after bulk operation, such as import, for example, choose the option from the context menu:

7. You can copy necessary categories with all products and subcategories with the corresponding option from the categories context menu.

Copy Paste Category

When you press the button to copy, the next form appears:

Category Copy Optons

Please check the most suitable conditions (one of them or both) and press the [OK] button to launch the copy process.

8. To paste the copied category(ies) select the corresponding button from the context menu.

The following form will appear. It allows you to choose the location for copied data.

Category Paste Method

In order for new categories to display in your Magento Store front-end, you must:

  • Make the Category active for all necessary Websites, Stores, and Store Views (see the "Is active" option in the Context Menu or Edit Category form).

  • Additionally, be sure all parent categories are active for all necessary Websites, Stores and Store Views (including Root catalogs).

Set Categories As Active

In addition, clear the cache in System Configuration, in order to see the most recent changes made from the Admin area of your relevant Store.

The number of products within each category could be visible in the categories tree. In order to do this, you should go to Tools - Preferences and choose Advanced section.

In the "Advanced" form you will be able to see the "Catalog" sector.

Preferences Catalog Sector

Select the "Show number of products in category tree" field. This will enable the option, but note, if you have a large store with a huge number of products it can affect the execution speed of Store Manager.

If you have the request linked to the categories among the custom queries in the same-named section of Store Manager:

Then you can launch the relevant SQL statement on the Categories page. Use the button in the top toolbar and choose the required SQL command from the drop-down list:

Select Custom SQL

The following video tutorial introduces the basic operations with category tree: create, edit categories, add products to the category(ies) etc.