categories - product management in Magento 
It's been a while since my last contribution. Meanwhile, Magento is already available in the stable version 1.4.1.0.
have in my previous posts I showed you what Magento offers it all. Now I'll show you how to manage categories.
conditions
I go to this How-To assume that in your shop have the necessary basic settings have been made. The contribution will help in the first place to offer newcomers a reference book to manage your new Magento shop.
log earlier in your Magento admin panel. For this purpose you'd type your web address with the one specified during the installation, administration code (default is "admin": http://www.meinshop.de/admin).
land after the successful authentication in the Dashboard - Startbildschrim - your store.
Now click on the menu above catalog and manage categories.
using categories If your shop fresh from the advertising agency comes and you do not have any categories, you must give your store only once a structure with categories. Similarly to the supermarket, you can sort your products into different "shelves".
default Magento has already created a category for you, which is automatically selected for your store. This is demonstrated by the fact that all subcategories are displayed in your shop.
Therefore, you must arrange your categories below. To create a new category
you must click on the "Default Category" Click on the list and then the button Add
subcategory.
Now open a blank form on the right:
General Information
In
Name enter the category name. This is then displayed in navigation and in the title.
Enabled or
Is Acitve determined whether the category is displayed along with your products to the customers or not.
If the URL
key is not set, Magento makes the name a URL-key. This serves to
http://www.meinshop.de/meine-kategorie naming the Url path or the document name in the address bar of the browser (for example, or http://www.meinshop.de/meine-kategorie/meine- category-2.html).
The
Description appears at the top of the page of the category (depending on design). Keep up here shortly, they will only give a quick overview of the included products - unless you want to set in: no products, but announcements, such as a product.
Then you can display settings tab
n the display mode to "static block" translated and an HTML page, create using the new WYSIWYG editor in version 1.4.
You can also upload a picture
what is displayed as the description above.
The next two fields
Meta Keywords and Meta Description
are primarily for search engines and appear as if you find yourself on Google as an entry again.
display settings
As mentioned above, one can use the category as a container for products, as well as a simple static page, or both.
If you want to include a static block must You first create an above
CMS, static blocks .
Is Anchor in my 1.4.1.0 version, unfortunately, not translated, and the name can not imagine unfortunately the function.
If you put on
Anchor Is No seen in a shop a category page on the "Search by" menu. Then there are the subcategories shown and you can display its product by filtering.
With
A vailable Product Listing Sort By the sorting options allow for this category in the narrow shop.
This makes sense, for example, if you have the sortable attributes size and price: In a Category no products with the size attribute, you do this not for sorting.
Product Listing Default Sort By sets the default sorting.
own design
This form is found more frequently in Magento, and is also a reason why Magento is so flexible.
Here you can actually design for such a category set and layout changes. This means it can store a special category is to promote, by adapting the design of the shop's products!
Of course, all this and remain within the recognition or have the user interface of the shop are not among them.
prerequisite course, are the themes (themes). Adjusting these can be determined using the drop
Custom Design. The field
Apply To whether sub-categories, the products themselves or only this category page will be affected by the design changes. With Active
From -
Active To one can determine the period for amending and
Page Layout determines the layout of the page.
with XML knowledge can then be for the category CMS blocks move, insert, hide or call other functions.
Category Products
This Tab created the administrator a list of all products in this category are assigned. They can edit but unfortunately not.
If you have made a mistake when creating the categories and a category one needs to be moved, you can simply click on the affected category, hold down and drag to the desired location. After a short download
Magento then has the position changed the category.
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