Creating a category

When you create a category, there are certain attributes that you must define or enter for the category. Some of these attributes affect how the category appears in your store.

Create Category attributes

Attribute Description
Category Details
Category Locale The default locale associated with this category.
Internal Category name

The name of the category within Global Commerce. This name appears in reports generated for your store. This name does not appear in your store or to shoppers and may be different from the Site Category Name.

Note: When you create a catalog, the system assigns a category ID to the category. The ID identifies the category in the system and cannot be changed.
Site Category Name The name of the category as you want it to appear to shoppers in your store.
Options

Display Category—When selected, the shoppers can see the category in your store. If you do not select this checkbox, the system creates the category, but it will not be visible in your store.
Category Image

The image for the category. Depending on your store design, this image may or may not appear to shoppers.

  1. On the Product Details Page tab, click Select. The Select an Image window appears.

  2. Choose one of the following options:

    • To upload images to the primary folder (the system saves all product images to a single location), click New File to import a new image. The New File dialog appears.

    • To upload images to a new folder:

      1. Click New Folder, type the folder name and then click Save.

        Note: Do not use spaces and special characters in folder names. Hyphens (-) and underscores (_) are allowed.

      2. Select the new folder under File/Folder Name and then click New File to import a new image. The New File dialog appears.
    • To upload images to an existing folder, select the folder under File/Folder Name and then click New File to import a new image. The New File dialog appears.

  3. If required, select the Overwrite Existing File with Same Name, If Present checkbox.

    Note: You only need to select this checkbox when you import an image over an existing image with the same name.

  4. Click Choose File, follow the prompts to locate the image, and then click Open. The name of the image file appears next to the Choose File button.
  5. Click Upload.
  6. Optional. Click the file name to display the image and the image width and height under Preview or click View to display the image in a separate browser tab.
  7. Click the image file name under File/Folder Name and then click Add Selected to add the selected image to the product.
Short Description Provide a brief description of the category. The description appears to the shoppers on the Category List page. Depending on the design of the site, shoppers may or may not see this description on your site.
Long Description Provide a full description of the category. Depending on the design of your store, this description may or may not appear to shoppers. Depending on the design of the site, shoppers may or may not see this description on your site.
Keywords Provide a full description of the category. Depending on the design of your store or site, this description may or may not appear to shoppers.
Search Engine Optimization
Title Tag

The text for the link that appears when the product appears in the search results. The title appears as the primary link in the search results.

Meta Description Enter the description that should appear under the Title Tag for the category list page when it appears in the search results.
Meta Keywords

The words you expect a shopper to enter in a search engine. These words describe your products or store.

Note: Do not use punctuation when entering words in this field.

Enter keywords that describe the category and appear in products for that category.

How to create a category

You can create categories as needed for your store.

Note: The system does not associate unassigned products with a category in your catalog. As a result, shoppers cannot see unassigned products on your site. See How to view unassigned products for more information.

  1. Select Catalog, select Catalogs and Categories, and then click Manage Categories. The Product Categories page appears.

  2. Select a catalog or category from the Categories list in which you want to add a new category.

    Note: You can create a category within a category or at the root level of a catalog.

  3. Click Create Category. The Create Category page appears.
  4. Complete the fields. See Create Category attributes for a description of the fields.
  5. Click Save. The Product Categories page appears, and the new category appears in the Categories list.