Category Data
Category Maintenance Mode
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When the deploying site is in Integrated mode:
source site: online mode / target site: online mode
source site: Integrated mode / target site: Integrated mode
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When a destination site is in Integrated mode (and the deploying site is in Online mode):
deployment of category hierarchy (tree structure) dataSource site: online mode / target site: Integrated mode
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Think of the deployment process as completing one or more deployment instances.
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What can be deployed?
NOTE - Category data is non-lockable. This means content managers on destination sites can always rollback your changes or make further edits.
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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
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Step-by-step guide
1. Enable CategoryDeploy
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 data
This step assumes you have category data ready to deploy. Deployable data for a category must be online-mantained. If your deploying site is in Integrated Category Maintenance mode, some data types cannot be selected.
Category Data
To deploy category data:
- Go to E-commerceEcommerce → Products & Categories → Category Maintenance.
Do you want to deploy data from- Deploy a single category or the same data types from multiple categories? NOTE - The multiple categories category option is only available when your a source site is in Online Mode.
- Online mode: Multiple categories - on the top right of the page, select Deploy the button. Single category - if your site is in Online mode, find the category, hover over its Options, then select Deploy.
- if your site is in Integrated mode,- 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
Follow the steps in the Deploy modal:
Toggle ON
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- In the Deploy popup, toggle to select the data type(s) to deploy. If your the source site is in Integrated Maintenance mode, category hierarchy data cannot be selected.
Toggle ON the category to deploy. If you're deploying multiple categories, toggle ON each required category.- Toggle to select each category.
- Click Next.
- Toggle ON to select one or more destination target sites.
- Click Click Next.
- Check the data and site selections are correct, then click Deploy.
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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.
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.
Additional Information
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Catalogue |
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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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