Step-by-step guide
1. Enable Category Deploy
In the CMS, go to Settings → Settings → Feature Management → Content → Deploy Content.Ensure Deploy Content is enabled, then click Configure.
In Deployment, toggle ON deploy for Category Maintenance.
2. Deploy category changes
This step assumes you have category data ready to deploy. Deployable data for a category must be from Category Maintenance in Online mode.Category Data
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A top-level category must already exist on the destination site, otherwise category content deployment will fail. New top level categories (Category Codes) cannot be deployed. |
Only online maintained category data types can be deployed. You can select to deploy one or more category data types:
- category image, deletion of category image
- category banner, including image
- category tree structure (excluding products)
- category product hierarchy
- category products
- category details
- category SEO details
- category custom fields
Deploy Category Data
To deploy category data:
- Go to E-commerceEcommerce → Products & Categories → Category Maintenance.
Do you want to deploy data from multiple categories or- Deploy a single category or multiple categories?
NOTE - The multiple category option is only available when a source site is in Online Mode.Follow the steps in the Deploy modal:
- Online mode: Multiple categories - click Deploy at on the top right of the page, select Deploy the button. Single category - find the category, hover over its Options, then click select Deploy.
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- Integrated mode: Single category only - find the category, then click Edit next to it. In the Maintain Category page, hover over the Options button, then select Deploy.
- In the Deploy popup, toggle to select the data type(s) to deploy.
2. Toggle ON a category item to deploy. If you're deploying multiple categories, toggle ON for each one. To use the Select All toggle with specific items, use the filter to find the items, then toggle ON Select All.
3. Click Next.
4. Toggle ON a linked site(s) to deploy to.
5. Click Next.
6. Check deploy data and details If the source site is in Integrated Maintenance mode, category hierarchy data cannot be selected.- Toggle to select each category.
- Click Next.
- Toggle to select one or more target sites.
- Click Next.
- Check the data and site selections are correct, then click Deploy.
In the next modal window, check whether deployment was successful or failed,
Successful deployments - the progress bar reaches step 4 'Results' and has a 'Successful' message. You can also click the link (2) to see the deployment details.
Tip Think of the deployment process as completing one or more deployment instances.
- In a deployment instance, changes in selected data type(s) and items are copied over to one destination site.
- For a successful deployment instance, all changes must be successfully deployed to a destination site. If one change fails to deploy, the whole deployment instance will fail. No changes will be copied over to this site.
- If you selected multiple destination sites, you are initiating multiple deployment instances.
Unsuccessful deployments - the progress bar remains at step 3 'Summary' and the failed message is displayed. Review this deployment's data and details for issues before trying again.
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Related help
final step, click the link to check deployment results,
- For deployment to more than one site, scroll down to check deployment for each target site. Click More Information to view error messages logged for the specific target site deployment.
Troubleshooting Category Deployment
Category Not Displaying a Product
A deployment will only add a product to a deployed category if the product code exists on the target site. If the code is not found, this particular product is omitted. The deployment will still be flagged as successful.
Solution: Before deployment, check that products and their codes are available on a target site.
Category Maintenance Mode Not the Same
Category Maintenance mode on target site has been set to Integrated mode and cannot receive the data from the source site. Solution: change mode on target site to Online mode. If this cannot be done, Category Deployment cannot be used.
Enable Deploy Category (Admin)
- In the CMS, go to Settings → Settings → Feature Management → Content → Deploy Content.
- Ensure Deploy Content is enabled, then click Configure.
- In Deployment, toggle ON deploy for Category Maintenance.
- Click Save or Save & Exit.
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