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Merchant category issue

Submitted by johnr on Mon, 2010-02-08 06:57.

Some of my merchants have in the feeds categories like "women / dress", "women / pants" ....etc...
How can I just display "Dress" and "Pants" as products and "Women clothing" for example as category?

Thank you

Submitted by support on Mon, 2010-02-08 09:50.

Hi John,

The best way to deal with this is probably a Search and Replace filter. To do this, click Filters alongside the feed containing these categories; and add a new Search and Replace filter to the Category field. In the text box on the configuration page; enter:

"Women / "

(without the quotes, but including all spaces) and after the next import; only the remainder of the field will be used. Simply add more filters for any other top level categories that need to be removed (e.g. "Men / ").

I did think about suggesting the Explode filter from this thread, which could be used if the categories are consistent (exploding on the "/" character, and using a return index of 1 to extract the second value) but this could cause problems if not all categories are expressed in the same way... still, that might be a better solution depending on the data...

Cheers,
David.