Convert Category to root category?

[kpham501]

I'm adding a multistore and didn't set one of my categories as a root category.  Can I convert that category to a root category if so how do I do it?

[PrestUser]

Hi,

 

This topic is a bit old, but solving it may help a lot of people.

 

I have the same issue in PrestaShop 1.6.1.1, which, I think, is not very different from your version regarding multistore management.

 

The issue is that the backoffice does not allow to set/declare an existing category as a root category.

It seems that a category can be declared as a root category only when it is created via "Categories" > "Add a new root category".

 

However, I found that editing the `prestashop_category` MySQL database table *might* solve our issue. For the concerned `id_category`, I changed the `is_root_category` column from 0 to 1. This simple change *seems* to work. But there might be other changes to do in the database that only developpers can recommend because they have a global knowledge of PrestaShop internals. And this single change might break some things in PrestaShop, so if you do it, it is at your own risk.

 

I hope that a developper will come across this topic and share his point of view.

 

Best regards.