Organizing Your Catalog with Product Categories for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions

Products can be organized into Categories. These groupings allow multiple products to be grouped and handled collectively. Product categories can be used to apply discounts or other offers to a set of products, to assist buyers in finding products, or to promote certain products to a specified account or account group.

Categories may also be organized hierarchically to form a taxonomy of categories. To organize products into categories, you must create the categories first and then assign products to them. Furthermore, because all Liferay Commerce Products are handled at the global level, all Vocabularies and Categories have to be at the global scope level.

For more information about global scope, see Understanding Configuration Scope.

Commerce 2.1 and Below

1. Navigate to the Control Panel → Commerce → Products.

2. Click on a product. (If you used Minium to create a site with sample data, click Transmission Fluid. Note that the Transmission Fluid product already has been linked to the sample Vocabulary and Category.)

   

3. On the Details tab, click Select next to the catalog in the Categorization widget.

4. Click on the Select button under the label for the appropriate vocabulary, and in the pop-up that appears the check the box next to each category that applies.

   

5. Click Done.

Commerce 2.0 and Below

1. Navigate to the Control Panel → Commerce → Products.

2. Click on a product then the Categorization tab. (If you used Minium to create a site with sample data, click Transmission Fluid. Note that the Transmission Fluid product already has been linked to the sample Vocabulary and Category.)

   

3. Click on the Select button under the label for the appropriate vocabulary, and in the pop-up that appears the check the box next to each category that applies.

4. Click Done.

The category is now associated with the product.

Repeat as necessary for all other products that might fall under this category.