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Mapping Merchant category

Submitted by JasonG on Thu, 2011-11-17 19:56 in

Hi david

I have a feed where the "merchant_category" column has the merchants main category but also sub categories, its is displayed like this:

Dog Shop > Dog Toys, Dog Sports and Dog Training > Throw & Fetch Dog Toys > Retrieving Toys

We have not yet added sub categories to our site so for now I assume when Import this feed, I can still map this to a single category?

Do you forsee any issues?

Regards
Stuart

Submitted by support on Thu, 2011-11-17 20:32

Hi Stuart,

The Explode filter is the one to use in this situation, and by definition where a merchant provides a hierarchy the lowest level is generally the most relevant so in this case, add a new Explode filter against the Category field for this feed, with an "Explode Character or String" value of ">" (without the quotes), and a Return Index of -1, which will return the last value in the hierarchy, in this case "Retrieving Toys"...

Cheers,
David.
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