The category tree

Categories in Monokaido are two separate things, and most confusion comes from treating them as one:

• Vendor categories arrive in a feed. You do not change them — they are as the vendor sent them, and every vendor's are different.
• Your categories are a tree you build yourself. The shop looks the way this tree does, and parameter templates attach to it.

Between the two sits mapping. This screen is about the second one — your tree.

1 — Add category2 — Category count3 — Tree4 — By vendor5 — Manual6 — Mappings7 — Vendor filter8 — Expand all9 — Expand arrow10 — Category code11 — Vendor

Controls on this screen

1. 1Add category — Creates a node. You pick its parent in the dialog.
2. 2Category count — The total across every branch. A sudden jump usually means a feed brought its own tree.
3. 3Tree — The whole hierarchy as it stands.
4. 4By vendor — The same thing, grouped by vendor.
5. 5Manual — Placing products into a category by hand.
6. 6Mappings — Matching a vendor's categories to your tree.
7. 7Vendor filter — Leaves only one vendor's branches in the tree.
8. 8Expand all — Unfolds the whole hierarchy. At a thousand categories that takes a moment.
9. 9Expand arrow — A node without an arrow has no subcategories.
10. 10Category code — The identifier the feed and any export know this category by.
11. 11Vendor — Which feed the branch came from.

Changing the tree

1. Adding a category

   Add category creates a node; you choose the parent in the dialog. With no parent it becomes a new root.

2. Moving

   A node is moved by dragging. It takes its whole subtree with it — children follow the parent.

3. Activating and deactivating

   An inactive category does not appear in the shop. The dialog offers a choice that applies the state to the whole subtree at once.

What children inherit