User Manual/Administration Interface/Catalog details

Category details


There are some input field in the detail view that are all directly related to the category you've added or you are going to edit. Their purposes are:


 * ID (read-only) : Unique category ID that is used for internal references. This value is generated automatically.


 * Status (required) : Controls the visibility of the category in the frontend. There are several status values available but the category will only be shown in the frontend if the status is "enabled".


 * Code (required) : Unique code of a category. As long as it's unique, this value is only relevant if you would like to automatically import categories.


 * Label (required) : An internal label which helps you to identify the category. Usually, this is not used outside of the administration interface but if you don't add a translated name to that category, the label will be shown in the frontend.


 * Created (read-only) : Date and time when the entry was added. This value is set automatically.


 * Last modified (read-only) : Last date and time when the entry was edited. This value is set automatically.


 * Editor (read-only) : Last user who added or modified the entry. This value is set automatically.



Additional information
After entering the basic data for a category, it's important to add additional information to that category to be useful. Associating items is one of the basic concepts in the administration interface.

Texts


Each text can have a maximum of 64 thousand bytes which equals 16-64 thousand characters depending on the size of the UTF-8 characters you use. To be most compatible with all platforms/operating systems/browsers, use only UTF-8 encoding. Besides plain text, you can also use HTML code for special markup but it's discouraged to do so

To name and describe the category, you should add at least a name in each language. If other text types are shown depends on the implementation of the frontend.

The list type for all text items should be "default" as there's no distinction between between different types yet.



Media


Media items can be files of any type, from pictures over documents to audio files. Anything that can be stored in a file can be used in an (multi) media item. By default, the frontend will only display category icons with a list type of "default". If items with other types and list types are shown depends on the implementation of the frontend.

You may add one icon per category if you would like to but adding none is OK in most cases. The icon should be in JPEG, PNG or GIF format to make sure it can be displayed on all platforms and small enough to be displayed near the category name.



Products


Products can be associated by drag&drop from the right product list to the left panel. The order of the associated products in left panel implies also their position in the product list of the frontend. You can change the position of the products by moving the entries within the left panel.

By default there are two list types for each entry in the left panel available:


 * Default : This is the standard list type and should be used for regular products in the product list


 * Promotion : Product associations with this list type are intended for product promotions on top of the product list



Attributes


The catalog attribute panel is available for future uses but we found no case where we need it yet :-)



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