2. Category Management

fmProducts - Category Section.

Comfortable for your customers and visitors category tree makes your Store user-friendly and tilts the balance to the advantage of your products.

Store Manager for X-Cart allows you to specify, modify or remove X-Cart categories and adjust all structure to meet your needs in convenient X-Cart category management. You can browse your X-Cart category tree as easy as

you browse your folders. You can manage your X-Cart category tree using simple drag-and-drop technology. It requires few clicks only to make changes and will simplify this time-consuming but so important operation.

To perform basic operations like add, edit or delete X-Cart categories you can use X-Cart Categories toolbar or context menu:

From the toolbar and the context menu, you can perform the following basic operations:

1. Refresh categories list forces X-Cart categories list update. It is useful when you're changing connection or have any doubts like is the latest data displayed.

2. Add new category calls blank X-Cart Edit category form, which is used to create a new category. Edit category form description see below.

3. To edit category you can double click on it or use X-Cart edit category button. It calls edit category form for highlighted category. Edit category form description see below.

4. You can delete selected X-Cart category and its subcategories from your store . Pay attention that you won't be able to undo delete from store option unless you've made d-base backup.

You have to confirm this action:

And to select:

  • Yes - to delete the X-Cart category and all it's products, but for each of it's subcategories it will ask you to confirm action again.
  • No - to close the window without any changes made, but for each of it's subcategories it will ask you to confirm action again.
  • No to All - to close the window without any changes made.
  • Yes to All - to delete X-Cart categories altogether, including their products and subcategories.

Note: If you have products assigned to multiple X-Cart categories they will be removed not only from selected category but from the store completely!

5. To expand / collapse category tree use appropriate icon.

6. To manage X-Cart Category tree use Drag-and-drop technology. You can move X-Cart categories with subcategories and products, just highlight category (ies), drag it (them), drop on any of the X-Cart category names and confirm operation: