Description

This screen enables you to manage all your categories. In HikaShop, product categories, tax categories and order statuses are all managed the same way as categories. This enables you to easily manage all of them from the same interface.

Here, you will be able to publish the categories that can be used in your store. In order to make it faster for you to use HikaShop common order statuses are already entered.

You can sort your categories by any field, search using the "filter" box and directly modify some properties by clicking on the icons.

Toolbar

• Rebuild : By clicking this button, a process will rebuild your categroies, this may sometime solve some issue with your categories.
• New : Enables you to create a new category.
• Edit : By clicking on the little pen icon you will be able to edit a category.
• Delete : Select one or several categories and click on this button in order to completely delete them. The default categories cannot be deleted as they are necessary to the system. You can however tweak them based on your needs.
• Help : This button enables you to turn ON/OFF the help section, this screen will appear or disappear.
• Control panel : You can go back to the control panel using this button.

Column Headers

• # : An indexing number automatically assigned for ease of reference.

• Checkbox : Check this box to select one or more items. To select all items, check the box in the column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click on the delete button in order to delete the selected categories.

• Edit : By clicking on the edit icon, you will be able to edit the category.
• Image : The image of the category.
• Name : The name of the category. If you click on the name, you will browse that category and see the listing of its sub-categories.
• Order : This column will only be displayed if viewing the categories using the filter "Direct sub elements". It enables you to order the categories of the current level the way you want.
• Published : If a category is published it means that it can be seen by your customers in your shop.
• ID : This field indicates the ID of the category.

Filters

• The first part of the filters area contains a breadcrumbs like interface  which will help you navigate to parent categories.
• The filter caption enables you to easily search in your categories.
• Using the dropdown on the right of this area, you will be able to switch the view between displaying all the sub elements of the previously selected category or only the direct children of it.

Explorer

• This explorer will help you navigate in your categories similarly to want you do when browsing your computer folders. For a fast user experience, all your categories will be loaded to display it. But if you have a lot of categories (several thousands) you might encounter some slow downs. Thus, there is an option in the configuration to not display it.