Categories

Products can be assigned to one or more categories which classify products into groups which could represent:

• Type of Product for example a "Toaster" category containing one or many Toasters.

• Products belonging to a special offer for example a "Special Deals" category contain one or many products with special pricing.

• Products assigned to be presented in a specific location within a channel, for example "Home Page Banner" for all products that are assigned to appear on a Banner on the Home Page of a website.

Portal View

Accessing Categories

Assess the Categories screen in the console via the console navigation bar.

Add New Category

Specified a Name for the category.

Click New Category to create the new category.

Edit Categories

Additional Category Details can be specified including:

Click Save to commit your modifications.

Category Properties

Attributes

Element	Description
categoryId	Internal Identifier for the category
name	Name of the category
slug	A Url slug to access the category
description	A Description for the category
attributes	One or more key/value pairs
parent Category	A parent category to support the creation of a hierarchical/tree based structure of related categories
images	Image (assets) assigned to a category

Sample Object