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

{
  "categoryId": "string",
  "version": "string",
  "slug": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "names": {
    "additionalProp1": "string",
    "additionalProp2": "string",
    "additionalProp3": "string"
  },
  "descriptions": {
    "additionalProp1": "string",
    "additionalProp2": "string",
    "additionalProp3": "string"
  },
  "parentId": "string",
  "parentName": "string",
  "itemCount": 0,
  "attributes": {},
  "children": [
    {
      "categoryId": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "slug": "string",
      "names": {
        "additionalProp1": "string",
        "additionalProp2": "string",
        "additionalProp3": "string"
      }
    }
  ],
  "totalChildren": 0,
  "sibling": [
    {
      "categoryId": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "slug": "string",
      "names": {
        "additionalProp1": "string",
        "additionalProp2": "string",
        "additionalProp3": "string"
      }
    }
  ],
  "totalSibling": 0,
  "isActive": true,
  "files": [
    {
      "fileId": "string",
      "contentType": "string",
      "accessPermission": "string",
      "accessUrl": "string",
      "attributes": {},
      "edgeUrl": "string"
    }
  ]
}