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This is part of the CV ecommerce multisite content management feature. Learn more: multisite content management

Overview

You can only deploy category re-structure and changes to a top level category down if its category code already pre-exists on the target site.

 


Use case: CV Franchise HQ has added new product sub-categories to a pre-existing top level category. They want their changes to be distributed to all franchisee sites. Franchisee sites will be able to alter the deployed category details should they want to localise to suit. 


Quick Guide

Source site feature setting: Deploy Content enabled. Online Category Maintenance mode

Target site feature setting: Online Category Maintenance mode. 

Lockable content type: no. Deployed category details can be edited and deleted on target sites.

Deployable content type: yes. 

What can be deployed? all or part of a category's structure that can be edited online, including subcategories and its products (not product details), SEO URL, meta-data, banner, custom fields. ERP-integrated data cannot be deployed. 

Deployment notes: To deploy all deployable data types, Online Category Maintenance mode must be set on both source and target sites. Top level (parent) category code must pre-exist on a target site. Products with product codes not on a target site will not be deployed.

Other checks: a product must already exist on target site or else, will not be added as a category product in the deployment.   

                     

Check Category Maintenance mode

When the source site is in Integrated Category Maintenance mode:

  • only a single category's data can be deployed at a time 
  • category hierarchy (tree structure) data cannot be selected for deployment.

When a target site is in Integrated mode (and the deploying site is in Online mode):

  • deployment of category hierarchy (tree structure) data will fail. The Content Deployment Log will display this error message:

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Category Data


A top-level category must already exist on the destination site, otherwise category content deployment will fail. New top level categories (Category Codes) cannot be deployed.

Only online maintained category data types can be deployed. You can select to deploy one or more category data types: 

  • category image, deletion of category image
  • category banner, including image
  • category tree structure (excluding products)
  • category product hierarchy 
  • category products
  • category details
  • category SEO details
  • category custom fields       


Deploy category data

This step assumes you have category data ready to deploy. Only online-maintained data are deployable. If your deploying site is in Integrated Category Maintenance mode, some data types cannot be selected. 


To deploy category data:

  1. Go to E-commerce → Products & Categories → Category Maintenance.

  2.  Do you want to deploy data from a single category or the same data types from multiple categories? NOTE - The multiple categories option is only available when your site is in Online Mode.
    1. Online mode: Multiple categories - on the top right of the page, select Deploy the button. Single category - find the category, hover over its Options, then select Deploy.

    2. Integrated mode: Single category only - find the category, then click Edit next to it. In the Maintain Category page, hover over the Options button, then select Deploy.

  3. In the Deploy modal, toggle ON the data type(s) to deploy. If your site is in Integrated mode, category hierarchy data cannot be selected.


  4. Toggle ON the category to deploy. If you're deploying multiple categories, toggle ON each required category. 


  5. Click Next.

  6. Toggle ON one or more valid destination sites.


  7. Click Next.

  8. Check the data and site selections are correct, then click Deploy.


  9. In the next screen, check whether deployment was successful or failed,

    1. Single destination site

      1. Successful deployments:  the progress bar reaches step 4 'Results' and has a 'Successful' message. You can also click the link (2) to view the deployment details.   
      2. Failed deployment: the progress bar remains at step 3 'Summary' and the failed message is displayed. Review data and site details for this deployment instance for issues before trying again. Check the Content Deployment Log for errors. 


    2. Multiple destination sites: 
      1. Successful for all sites -  the progress bar reaches step 4 'Results' and has a 'Successful' status. Scroll down to view results for each destination site. You can also click the link to view deployment details.
      2. Successful and Failed for different sites - the progress bar reaches step 4 'Results' and has a 'Successful' status. Scroll down to view results for each destination site.

        You can also click the link (2) to view the deployment details.   

      3. Failed for all sites - the progress bar remains at step 3 'Summary' and the failed message is displayed. Review data and site details for this deployment instance for issues before trying again. Check the Content Deployment Log for errors. 




Enable Deploy Category (Admin) 

  1. In the CMS, go to Settings → Settings → Feature Management → Content → Deploy Content.

  2. Ensure Deploy Content is enabled, then click Configure.


  3. In Deployment, toggle ON deploy for Category Maintenance.


  4. Click Save or Save & Exit. 

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