Changing categories

You can change the information for a category, including code, name, description, images, and parent category.

Procedure

Open the Catalogs tool.
To change a category in the master catalog, from the explorer filter, click Master Catalog Categories. To change a sales category, from the explorer filter, click Sales Catalog Categories.
Note: If you are using the extended sites model, you can update categories if the master catalog category or sales catalog category belongs to the extended site store. You can change the asset store category only if you have access to the asset store.
Find the category that you want to change.
On the explorer tree, right-click the category; then click Open.
The Manage Category tab displays in the work area.

Optional: Expand the Object Properties section.

This section is read-only and provides information if your company uses the following features:

Property	Description
Associated store	The store that the asset belongs to: If workspaces are enabled If your store is an extended sites store
Change Made In	The name of workspace, task group, or task, where the object is changed.
Workspace	The name of the workspace that the task is associated with. This field is read-only.
Task Group	The name of the task group that the task is associated with. This field is read-only.
Description	A description of the task. This field is read-only.

Expand the General Category Information section. Complete the following information:

Property	Description
Code	The language independent category identifier.
Name	The name of the category.
Short description	Type a brief description of the category.
Long description	Type a detailed description, if applicable.
Keyword	Type one or more keywords, which are separated by a comma and a space that describe the contents of the Web page. Some Internet search engines use these keywords to determine whether your page satisfies a search query. This field can be edited in multiple languages.
Parent category (master catalog)	The category to which an object such as a category, product, or SKU belongs, or the catalog to which a top category belongs.

Expand the Display section. Complete the following information:

Property	Description
Display to customers	Select this check box to indicate that customers can view this category in the storefront.
Thumbnail	Type the path to the thumbnail image and the name of the image, such as images/shirt.jpg.
Full image	Type the path to the full-size image and the name of the image, such as images/shirt.jpg.