Imports web shop categories, optionally building a parent/child hierarchy and mapping each category to a search tag.
1. Select the action in the Action field. 2. Point to your data source – a file (CSV or Excel) or a SQL query. 3. Map the source columns to Sapera's fields in the column mapping (see Source fields below). 4. Run Compare to see what will be created, changed or stay unchanged – without writing to Sapera. 5. Run Update Sapera to perform the import.
Use the Allow create and Allow update parameters to control whether new rows are created and whether existing ones are updated.
Each category is identified by parent + name. Set Parent to build a category hierarchy.
Depending on the setup, each category can also be mirrored to a matching search tag. The given parent must exist. Direction: from file/SQL into Sapera.
Parameter | Explanation |
| When enabled, web shop categories that do not exist are created. |
| When enabled, existing web shop categories are updated. |
| When enabled, each category is linked to a matching search tag. |
| Display name of the search tag type used when mapping categories to search tags. |
| Name of the web shop the categories belong to. |
Field | Explanation |
| The SEO description text shown for the category. |
| The name of the web shop category (the identifier of the row). |
| The name of the parent category, used to build the category hierarchy. |
See also the overview SyncTool – actions.
