Dashboard

In this tab you can see the basic information about the selected category. Among them is the “Overview product status” card which shows you the progress of the products in the selected category. Additionally you can edit the validity period of the category as as well as the related user right.

Set the start of validity

In order to set the start of validity for the selected category, proceed as follows:

1. Click in the input box “Valid from” to call up the datepicker menu.
2. Select the start date.

• In order to save your changes, click on the SAVE button. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
• In order to save your changes and apply them to all the subcategories, click on the SAVE AND APPLY TO ALL SUBCATEGORIES button. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
• In order to dismiss your changes, click on the RESET button.

Set the end of validity

In order to set the end of validity for the selected category, proceed as follows:

1. Click in the input box “Valid to” to call up the datepicker menu.
2. Select an end date.

• In order to save your changes, click on the SAVE button. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
• In order to save your changes and apply them to all the subcategories, click on the SAVE AND APPLY TO ALL SUBCATEGORIES button. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
• In order to dismiss your changes, click on the RESET button.

Specify the user right

In order to specify a the user right for the selected category, proceed as follows:

1. Click on the “User right” field to show the selection menu that contains the rights directory.
2. Choose a user right from the the rights directory. Possibly use the text search to filter the list of user rights by a search term.
3. Click on the user right to select it.

• In order to save your changes, click on the SAVE button. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
• In order to save your changes and apply them to all the subcategories, click on the SAVE AND APPLY TO ALL SUBCATEGORIES button. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
• In order to dismiss your changes, click on the RESET button.

Relate content objects

First introduced in version 5.6: Via the appropriate dialog box you can relate categories to existing or newly created content objects. To do so, proceed as follows:

1. Click on the Content objects button to call up the dialog box.
2. Relate an existing content object to the selected categories or create a new content object and relate it directly. Click here to learn more.

In-/exclude subcategories

First introduced in version 5.4.1: Via the corresponding toggle switch you can determine whether the “Dashboard” tab also shows data from products in subcategories of the selected category:

• In order to include products from subcategories, move the toggle switch to the position.
• In order to exclude products from subcategories, move the toggle switch to the position.

Overview product status

The “Overview product status” card provides a visual overview of the product statuses. You can also see how the products in the categories are distributed among the different status levels.

Mandatory types

The “Mandatory types” card lists all the mandatory types such as mandatory attributes as well as price or text types which need to be maintained in the selected category.

Linked content objects

The table of the “Linked content objects” card shows you the content objects which are linked to the selected category.