Possible to reassign catalog items to another category?

[Former Member]

Hello all

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But... I have one more question: is it possible (and if yes how) to reassign catalog items to another category. We're on CCM 2.0 SP03 and couldn't find such a function until now. Is there a report we can run? Or do we have to delete and rebuild the content again? We have some manually added items and would like to have them move to another catalog category.

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Kind regards and keep up the good work,

Renaud

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Renaud,

you can use the mass change functionality in the edit catalogues transaction to change the value of the product category for your choosen items.

You'll need to make sure the new category has been defined in your schema as well.

Regards

Chris

Message was edited by: Chris March

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Chris

Thanks for the fast answer!

Was in there already but I can't find the category. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. What did I do / try?

Went to CCM CAT (catalog authoring tool). On the start page I clicked on edit catalogues, marked /CCM/MASTER_CATALOG and clicked on edit button below. In the content pane browsed to category and selected it. On the right hand side I see the items assigned to this category. These are the items I want to move to another category.

So I marked all those items, clicked on button mass change below and can see 3 parts:

- attributes on catalog level

- attributes on schema level

- attributes on category level

I only see attributes on catalog level! But there's no category attribute... I'm stuck... do I have to define this category id attribute?!?

Kind regards,

Renaud

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Renaud,

select the catalogue you want to change,

click the edit button,

go to the find items section,

select the items you want to change,

click the mass edit button,

choose the characteristic you want to change - in your case /CCM/PRODUCT_GROUP

click the continue button,

select Action 'Replace' *

Choose your old value from the drop down list

Enter your new Value

Click start Mass editing

The categories will then be updated.

*If your items that you are changing do not currently have the same product category choose Action 'Overwrite' and just enter the new value.

Hope this helps

Regards

Chris

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Hi Chris

Thanks again for the detailed description! But are we talking about the same? You're talking about attribute "/CCM/PRODUCT_GROUP". I'm talking about the catalog category. Is this the same? Doesn't the product group in CCM represent the material group in R/3? If so, then we're not talking about the same thing.

In the content pane during edition of the catalog you see the catalog structure. What I mean are the categories within this catalog structure. Let's say I have somewhere in this structure 5 materials (items) assigned to it. What I'd like to do is to assign those 5 items to another node in the structure.

Kind regards,

Renaud

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Renaud,

Is the Category your catalogue items are assigned to not the same as the material group/product category?

The category structure i.e

Office Supplies

> Paper Products

> Printer Paper

can be amended using your schema and then amend the content file so that the items are mapped to another category.

Is your lowest level in the Category Structure not the equivelant of a Material group in EBP and R/3? how are you transferring the material group from the catalogue to the shopping cart?

Regards

Chris

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Hi Chris

Our category structure has the following structure:

/CCM/MASTER_CATALOG
   > Main schema node
      > Node 1
         > Node 1.1 (product cat. X)
         > Node 1.2 (product cat. Y)
         > ...
      > Node 2
         > Node 2.1 (product cat. A)
         > Node 2.2 (product cat. B)
         > ...
      > Node 3
         > Node 3.1 (product cat. I)
         > Node 3.2 (product cat. II)
         > ...
      > Node 4
         > Node 4.1 (product cat. a)
         > Node 4.2 (product cat. b)
         > ...

In CCM CAT (catalog authoring tool) it is possible to manually add some catalog items (material). They're assigned to the category (node) you're actually in. We have accidentally manually put (created) some materials this way in node 2 directly (yes, that's possible) and want to move those items to node 3.

Those manually added items are not coming from a supplier or SRM extracted catalog! Thus there is NO MAPPING between categories from supplier or SRM extracted catalog to our /CCM/MASTER_CATALOG.

However, those items have a product category assigned (attribute /CCM/PRODUCT_CATEGORY if I recall correctly). Because without it the process within SRM (like backend system determination, purch.group determ., etc.) will not work properly.

All this doesn't seem to help when wanting to move such items from node 2 to node 3. It seems like in that case we need to delete the items and recreate them again in the correct node.

Hope this clarified our problem description a bit. Sometimes its quite difficult to explain without being able to show it on the screen...

Thanks for further suggestions!

Kind regards,

Renaud

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Renaud,

good explanation I understand what the problem is now.

I've tried this is in our system and have found a way to move the items.

Try this out.

1. Highlight the item in the 'Edit Items in a Category' section

2. Click the copy button

3. Click on the new node where you want the item to be

4. Click the Insert button - the item will now be visisble.

5. Go back to the original node

6. Delete the item

The item will now be in the correct place and deleted from the original category.

Hope this helps

Regards

Chris

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Chris

Your solution sounds really good. It'll work... for sure! Will keep you informed about the results on Monday.

Have a great weekend.

Kind regards,

Renaud

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris

Yes, it worked. However, one of our catalog managers created some items manually in top node /CCM/MASTER_CATALOG. Unfortunately, those items can not be copied (copy button is disabled on top node level).

We will have to create them manually again in the correct node (only 23 items).

Thanks and kind regards,

Renaud

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Renaud,

glad it worked.

Regards

Chris