Place products in category

Purpose and main functionality

The Place products in category bulk operation is designed to allow the user to easily place products in multiple categories at once. The main functionality of this operation consists of:

• Selecting one or multiple product categories as placement target
• Marking one product category as the primary category
• Option to run product enrichers on product placement

After configuring the product placement operation, it is queued for the PIM job runner to pick it up.

The selected categories will be appended to the list of categories a product belongs to. Existing categories for the products included in the operation will not be overwritten except for the primary category, as products can only have a single primary category.

Bizzkit recommends

Placing products in one or multiple categories is a key step in the product enrichment process. Structuring products by using product categories improves the findability of products within PIM and enables a better product enrichment process, as user responsibilities often go hand in hand with certain product categories.

For optimal use of the product placement capabilities, it is recommended to attach product enrichers to categories and run the enrichers as part of the product placement operation. This allows for assigning category-specific attributes to products and makes it an automated step in the product enrichment process.

Detailed functional description

Selecting product categories as placement target

Product categories can easily be found by searching for the category name.

All available product hierarchies with underlying product categories are shown and can be browsed. Product categories on each level in the hierarchy can be selected as a product placement target.

The selected product categories are listed in the placement target view. A single product category can be marked as the primary category. Categories can be deleted from the placement target list, which means that the category is not used as placement target. This does not impact any products which may be placed in this category, as the placement operation does not remove products from categories.

Running product enrichers

As part of the product placement operation, product enrichers which are linked to a category can be run. In order to do this, the Run enrichers option should be toggled on when running the place products operation. Enabling this option runs all product enrichers on all categories that have been selected for product placement.