Adding Subcategories to Drill Categories

After creating drill categories, you can group products into multiple levels of subcategories within the main drill category. You can also link an image, such as a product photograph, with a subcategory. The browser displays the image next to the subcategory items. Using images helps customers visually identify the subcategory. For more information about creating and adding images to a subcategory, see Creating Images for Web Commerce.

To add a subcategory to a drill category:

  1. Display the WOE Drill Down Maintenance screen in one of the following ways:

To create...

From the...

a company-wide subcategory

System > Custom > Web Commerce > Web Drill Maintenance menu, select WOE Drill Down Maintenance.

a customer-specific subcategory

Files menu, select Customer. With a customer displayed, use the Remote hot key, then the WOE Info hot key, and then the WOE Drills hot key.

  1. Select the drill category you want to add a subcategory to and use the Expand hot key.

A second WOE Drill Down Maintenance screen displays with the selected drill category at the top of the screen.

  1. In the ID field on a blank line, do one of the following:

To...

Do this...

add an existing subcategory

enter the existing subcategory's description.

create a subcategory

type New. The system assigns an identification number for the subcategory.

  1. In the Description field, do one of the following:

To...

Do this...

add an existing subcategory

verify that the correct name displays.

create a subcategory

enter the subcategory name.

  1. To link an image with the subcategory, use the Img hot key.

  2. At the Image Path for [subcategory description] prompt, enter the web site directory path to the image:

If you store the image on your Internet Gateway computer in the \woeb\images directory, enter: \woeb\images\filename.jpg. If not, enter the complete path. For example, http://www.yourcompany.com/woeb/images/categories/electrictools.jpg

  1. For each additional subcategory, repeat steps 3 through 6 on a new line.

  2. Press Esc to save your changes and exit the screen.

To add a subcategory to a subcategory:

  1. Display the WOE Drill Down Maintenance screen in one of the following ways:

To create...

From the...

a company-wide subcategory

System > Custom > Web Commerce > Web Drill Maintenance menu, select WOE Drill Down Maintenance.

a customer-specific subcategory

Files menu, select Customer. With a customer displayed, use the Remote hot key, then the WOE Info hot key, and then the WOE Drills hot key.

  1. Select the drill category you want to add a subcategory to, and use the Expand hot key.

A second WOE Drill Down Maintenance screen displays with the selected product category at the top of the screen.

  1. With the cursor selecting a subcategory, use the Expand hot key.

A third WOE Drill Down Maintenance screen opens. The selected product subcategory displays at the top of the screen.

  1. Follow steps 3 through 6, in the previous procedure.

See Also:

Associating Products with Subcategories

Storing Subcategory Images

Product Drill Categories on Your Web Site Overview