[SOLVED] Multiple Catgeory Mapping

[Varsha28]

Hi,

    I want to map one product to two different categories having same name.

 e.g. i want to amp lovely board book to category first  and category second shown in attachments.

 

Thanks

[PascalVG]

Hi Varsha,

If I understand well, you have a category structure like this now:

Home

- Books

- - By Brands

- - - Dreamland  - My Product1

- - By Type

- - By Leaning Needs

- - By Age

- DVD's

-Toys

-Brands

- - Dreamland  - My Product1

 

...

 

And you want to have the SAME product under both 'Dreamlands', right?

 

You can have more Categories with exactly the same name, as it uses the ID to reference each category. You still have to add the product to both categories, but that's just checking an extra checkbox:

 

 

Hope this helps,

pascal

 

[Varsha28]

Thanks Pascal but i want to apply it for 1000 products via csv import. How should i do it?

If you know please help me.

 

Thanks in advance.

[PascalVG]

Ah, sorry wasn't clear about the import.

 

You might try this trick:

As import is done by Category name, there's obviously your problem. So what you can try is this:

- Just before import, RENAME temporarily one of the "Dreamland"-s to "Dreamland1".

 Then in the import file, use both Dreamland and Dreamland1 as category names (separated by ; or so, dependent on your settings). Then the import should add them both to Dreamland and Dreamland1. 

- After the import, rename the Dreamland1 back to Dreamland.

 

That might do it. Never tried, but sounds viable. Give it a try.

 

pascal.

[Varsha28]

Hello Pascal,

    Thanks for the reply. Your solution works very well. Problem solved

 

Thanks

-Varsha

[PascalVG]

Glad to hear it worked. Sometimes, working with Prestashop forces you to think a little out of the box :-)

 

Happy selling,

pascal