Categories

This section describes the category management interface.

Site Actions

Add Top Category
Adds a category to the root of the catalog.
Add Category
Adds a sub category to the current displayed category.
Delete Category
Deletes the current displayed category.
View Category
Opens the category in a pop-up window to quickly check the appearance of the category without leaving the LMI.
Goto Category
Leaves the LMI and goes to customer view of the current displayed category.

Move Categories

In order to move categories, hold it on the handle left beside the category name and drag and drop it to the new place.

Tabs

Data

Exclude from navigation
If checked the category is not displayed within the categories portlet.
Name
The name of the category. This is displayed on several places, e.g: within category overviews and on top of the category detail view.
Slug
The unique last part of the category’s URL.
Description
The detailed description of the category. This is displayed on the detail view of the category.
Image
The image of the category. This can be displayed within category overviews and the category detail view.
Static block
An optional static block which displayed on top of the category detail view.

View

Category template
The selected template of the category decides whether the sub categories or the products are displayed. It is also possible to provide more templates to display single categories individually.

Show all products

If this check box is activated also the products of the sub categories are displayed. Otherwise only the direct products are displayed.

Note

This is only available when a the products of the category are displayed. (see Category Template).

Active formats
If this check box is activated several formats for this category can be overwritten. Otherwise the formats are inherited from the parent object, which is either the parent category or the shop.
Category cols

Amount of columns which are used to display the sub categories. Always all direct categories of the category are displayed.

Note

This is only available if active formats is True and a category template is selected.

Product cols / Product rows

Amount of columns and rows which are used to display the products of the category. The amount of products which are displayed calculates by cols * rows. If there are more products than that the products are automatically paginated.

Note

This is only available if Active Formats is True and a product template is selected.

Products

This tab is used to assign and remove products to the category.

Add Products

In order to assign products to the category, select the check boxes of the corresponding products within the section Selectable Products and click on Add To Category.

Remove Products

In order to remove products from the category, select the check boxes beside the corresponding products within the section Selected Products and click on Remove From Category.

Filter

In order to make it easier to find products you can filter them by name, SKU and category. For that enter on top of the according section the name or the SKU into the text box and select the category out of the select box.

SEO

This tab is used to optimize your pages for search engines. You can enter data for all meta data fields. However LFS provides some reasonable default values for all fields.

Meta title
This is displayed within the meta title tag of the category’s HTML tags. By default the name of the category is used.
Meta keywords
This is displayed within the meta keywords tag of the category’s HTML page. By default the short description of the category is used.
Meta description
This is displayed within the meta description tag of the category’s HTML page. By default the short description of the category is used.

Note

You can use several placeholders within these fields:

<name>
The name of the category.
<short-description>
The short description of the category (only within meta keywords and meta description field).

Portlets

This tab is used to assign portlets to the category.

Blocked parent slots
By default portlets are inherited from the parent category. To block portlets check the regarding slots and click on the Save blocked parent slots button.
Slots
Here you can see all directly assigned portlets to the category. In order to edit a portlet click on row of the portlet. In order to delete a portlet click on the red cross beside the portlet. You can also change the position of the portlets by clicking on the up and down arrows beside the portlets.
Add new Portlet
In order to add a portlet to the category select the type of portlet and click on Add portlet.