Updating categories and prototypes

Merge categories

As an operator, you can merge the categories of a product in the Operator portal. 

1. Sign in to the Operator portal. 
2. Click CATEGORISATION > Categories. 
3. In the Edit Category window, click the Migrate Category button.
4. Select a category from the Select new category dropdown. 
5. Click Migrate Category. 

Note: You can only merge categories with similar prototypes.

Change the prototype of a category

As an Operator, you can change a Category’s prototype in the Operator portal. 

1.  Sign in to the Operator portal. 
2. Click CATEGORISATION > Categories. 
3. In the Edit Category window, scroll down to the Prototype field.
4. Select from the Prototype dropdown. 
5. Click Update Category to save changes. 

Merge categories through CSV or XLS

As an operator, you can merge categories of the products in bulk through CSV or XLS import. 

1. In the Operator portal, export a CSV or XLS file of the products you want to change the category. 
2. Open the export file and locate the Category column. 
3. Update the value of the product category. 
4. Go back to the Operator portal.  
5. Go to CATEGORISATION. 
6. Click Choose File and select the updated file. 
7. Click Upload Categories. 
8. Optionally, you can check the status of your imports by going to the REPORTING > Imports & Exports. 

Change the prototype of products through CSV or XLS import

As an Operator, you can change a Category’s prototype through CSV or XLS import. 

1. In the Operator portal, export a CSV or XLS file of the products for which you want to change the prototype. 
2. Open the export file and locate the Prototype column. 
3. Update the value of the product’s prototype.
4. Go back to the Operator portal.  
5. Go to CATEGORISATION > Prototypes. 
6. Click Choose File and select the updated file. 
7. Click Upload Categories. 
8. Optionally, you can check the status of your imports by going to the REPORTING > Imports & Exports. 

Merge categories through API 

Use the mutation ‘AdvertUpsert’ to update the category of a product. For more details, refer to this article. 

To get the taxonId, use an online encoding/decoding site or tool and paste the generated ‘taxonID’ in the mutation similar to the sample below.  

{
 advertUpsert(
  input: {
            advertId: "QWR2ZXJ0LTEwMDA5NTM5Mw==",
   attributes: { 
    taxonId: "VGF4b24tMzAx"
   }
  }
 ) {
  advert {
   id
            legacyId
            externalId
            variants {
                nodes {
                    externalId
                    id
                    legacyId
                }
            }
  }
  errors {
   field
   messages
  }
 }
}

Change the prototype of a category through API

Use the mutation ‘AdvertUpsert’ to update the category of a product. For more details, refer to this article. 

To get the protypeId, use an online encoding/decoding site or tool and paste the generated ‘prototypeId’ in the mutation similar to the sample below. 

{
    taxonCreateOrUpdate(
        input: {
            id: "VGF4b24tMzAx"
            prototypeId: "UHJvdG90eXBlLTE0OA=="
        }
    ) {
        status
        taxon {
            id
            legacyId
            displayName
            prototype {
                name
                id
            }
        }
    }
}