Edit Category Form

To create a new category or edit an existing one, proceed through several steps:

1. Click on create new or edit category icon, the edit category window will appear.
   
   
   
2. Select a Store View - Select a store where you would like to add the category from the appropriate drop-down menu. By default new category is created for all stores managed by the admin, but you can select one of available stores to create the category in.
3. Specify the following General Information:
   • Category Name - This field is required
   • Parent Category - Specify Parent category here if one. The default is Root Catalog, meaning the category will be a top-level category. If you select an existing category the new category will be created as a sub-category of the one you selected.
   • Description - Specify category description exactly the way it's going to appear on product's page.
     HTML Editor button shows new HTML editor window of category description. It has 2 tabs: HTML and Code, and Properties Toolbar. Source preview is useful if you are working directly with "raw" HTML text, which gives you precise control over the tags used in the page. However, by default, you can still work with objects visually.
   • Page Title, Meta Keywords and Meta Description - Specify meta information for the category.
   • CMS Block drop-down - select which static block you would like to display on your category page. It will include all existing static blocks, created earlier (it can be created in the static block manager - CMS > Static Blocks).
   • Display Mode drop-down - Select content to display in your category page.
     • Products only means that the products associated to the category will display, but not any static blocks.
     • Static block only means that the selected static block will display, but none of the products. This is ideal if you want to get your customers excited about the category before showing them products or if there is specific content you want to show for a certain category (tip: Make this page an anchor category and let your customers use layered navigation to find their products after viewing the landing page).
     • Static block and products means that the static block will display with the products listed directly beneath it. This is useful if you want to have several category pages where the same static block content is needed, but each feature different products.
   • Is Active - Select whether the category is active or hide it on the site.
   • Is Anchor drop-down:
     • Anchored categories will display all products associated to all child categories (and child of child, and child of child of child, etc.) on that category’s page, along with the products associated directly to the parent category.
     • Anchored categories will display the filterable attributes of all products that display in the category page (meaning the products associated to that category and to its child categories) in the Layered Navigation menu in the left column.
   • URL key - a relative URL path which can be entered in place of the standard Target Path. It is Search Engine Friendly because it can use the name of the category instead of the ID#. If you leave this field blank, it will automatically generate with the name of the category upon creation of the category. Do not use spaces if you enter URL value here.

4. Select one of Custom Design options. If you leave this drop-down blank, it will automatically use the Current package name design. This can be edited by navigating to System > Configuration and clicking the Design tab.

   

   Custom Design options:

   • Page Layout - Specify category page layout:
     • No layout updates - the default settings that come with the Magento installation will be applied.
     • Empty displays the category page without any objects, except for the content (products or static blocks only), category name, and view options (number to display per page, view as grid or list, and sort be options).
     • 1 column displays the contents, category name and view options, as well as the header, footer, search field, and navigation bar.
     • Column on the left adds the left column to the 1 column display, which by default includes the currency selection and layered navigation.
     • Column on the right adds the right column to the 1 column display, which by default includes the shopping cart view, wishlist, compared products list, polls, and newsletter sign-up.
     • 3 columns displays both the left and the right column.
   • Custom Layout Update - Specify custom layout exactly the way it's going to appear on product's page. The Update will display at the bottom of the page, below the products, whereas a static block will display above the products (if the static block is set to display with products).
   • Apply To:
     • All - means thats the design will be applied to this category, and its subcategories.
     • This category only - means that the design will be applied to this one category page only.
     • This category and its products - means that the design will be applied to this category page, and on the pages of all products associated to this category. If a product is associated to multiple categories, each with a different design, the design displayed on that product page will be determined by the design of the category page from which the user navigates to that product.
     • This category and its child categories - means that the design will be applied to this category page, and on the pages of all sub-categories, sub-sub-categories, and so on.
   • Active From and Active To -specify a time frame when the category will automatically switch to a design, and then switch back to the blank option when the time frame ends. This is perfect for the holidays, so that you can create a holiday design for you pages, and then have your site automatically switch back to the normal design whenever you want, without having to remember to do it yourself.

5. Select an Image by clicking:

   •  browse contents of your local folders and select an image. When you press OK button on edit form it will be uploaded to "Images directory" on FTP. When local image selected, this field will display local image path like C:\My Images\some_image.jpg. But local image path will be replaced with image name some_image.jpg right after upload.
   •  select some image stored remotely. It's done by browsing contents of FTP folder specified as "Images directory".
   •  open Image Resize Rules window. 
     
     
     

     
     
     You can add  or delete  rules if you need one.
   
   
   
   
   An image will be automatically uploaded via FTP if one is configured.