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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 Magento allows you to specify, modify or remove categories and adjust all structure to meet your needs for convenient Magento categories management. You can browse your category tree as easy as you browse your folders. You can manage your 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. 


Before you begin to manage Magento categories you should select the store where you would like to add the category.

Magento allows you to create multiple websites, stores and views. You can choose them in the Store Views section.


Note that here you can only select the one you need, but you will not be able to add or edit them here.


Basic Operations

To perform basic operations like add, edit or delete categories you can use Categories toolbar.

Or use any of categories' context menu:


You can perform such basic operations as:

1. Refresh data   forces category list update. It is useful when you're changing connection or have any doubts like is the latest data displayed.
2. Add category  calls blank Edit category form, which is used to create a new category. Edit category dialog pages description see below.
3. To edit category you can double click on it or use edit category  button. It calls edit category form for highlighted category. Please see below for options.
4. You can delete selected 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. 

5. To set category as root use corresponding button 
6. To expand / collapse category tree use appropriate icon .

7. To adjust columns width use  icon or enable column auto width option .