Creating categories

This topic describes how to create categories.

Prerequisites

To start creating categories, go to Catalog > Categories

Review the reference information before you start, or look up the necessary information as you go through the process.

Creating a category

To create a category, take the following steps:

1. On the Category page, in the top right corner, click Create category to open the Create category page.

2. In the Settings tab, enter and select the attributes for your category.

3. Click Next at the bottom of the page, or select the Images tab next to Settings.

4. In the Images tab, add an image to the category:

   1. Click Add image set.
   2. Enter the attributes of your image set.

   Keep in mind that small images are used when subcategories on the parent category page are displayed as a list, while the large images are used when subcategories are displayed as a grid.

5. To assign several images or image sets, click Add image or Add image set respectively, and enter URLs.

   Even though you can add several image sets and several images to an image set, out of the box, there is no place in the back end and front end where several image sets or images can be displayed for a category. However, if you still do that, the following logic applies:

   • When adding several image sets, the image set going first or having the name “default” is applied to the category.
   • When adding several images to the image set that is active for the category, the image with the lowest Sort Order field value is applied to the category. If there are several images with the same value, the image which has been added first is applied. The lowest possible value is “0”.

6. Click Save.

Reference information: Creating a category

This section holds reference information related to the category creation process.

Category page

On the Category page, you see the following:

• Category key, category name, and the parent category to which a specific one is assigned.
• Identifiers for active, visible, and searchable.
• Template type.
• Stores the category is assigned to.
• Actions that you can do in a specific category.

Settings tab

If the CMS-related template is selected, the following additional attributes appear:

Images tab

Category page template types

When you create or update categories, you select a template according to which your category (and products assigned to it ) is going to be displayed in your online store.

The following templates are used to set up your category look:

Catalog (default)
Select this template to display all product pages linked to the selected category. The product pages include the general product description, a price, an image, and a clickable View button that redirects you to the product details page.

Catalog+Slots
Select this template to show all product pages assigned to the selected category and a CMS Block. Depending on your design requirements, you need to set a specific CMS block and specify where it should be displayed: top, middle, or bottom.

The category is in the catalog, and two CMS blocks are now displayed on the page: Tackle Your To-Do’s and Build a Space That Spurs Creativity in the example).

Sub Category grid Select the Sub Category grid template to create a multilevel category structure. Here you can assign an image to each subcategory.

A template with slots

Select such a template to have slots for this category page. Slots can embed content from CMS Blocks and technology partner integrations. See Templates and slots for more details.

Tips and tricks
When you already know the exact parent category under which the category that you create is going to be nested, you can click Add category to this node for a specific parent category. This redirects you to the Create category page where you can perform the steps described above. The only difference is that the Parent field is auto-populated with the needed value.

The same products can be assigned to multiple categories.

Next Steps

Assign product to categories