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Thread: Add new category

  1. 02-21-2010, 03:55 AM #1
    r_bachar is offline Junior Member
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    Hello,

    is there a way to set a new category according to the product?

    for example i have a book named X and i the "books" category doesn't exist...

    how / where i should declare the new books category?
  2. 02-22-2010, 01:24 AM #2
    ASPAlfred is offline Senior Member
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    Not sure I got this. Need a bit of details here. thanks
  3. 02-22-2010, 02:19 AM #3
    r_bachar is offline Junior Member
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    Hey,

    i mean if i have 10 products, with 5 belong to books category and 5 belong to T-shirt category...

    Now the T-shirt category exist in the system and the books category isn't.

    How oar where in the XML can i define the books category to be automatic generate when i upload these products?
  4. 02-22-2010, 06:24 AM #4
    Mike The Last Boyscout is offline User
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    If when you're doing an XML import, you specify an xpath for the category:

    C#/VB.NET Code:
      <CategoryRef>/cat1/cat1-1/cat-1-1-1</CategoryRef> 
    It will automatically create those categories/sub-categories for you!