Datakick and mass update of categories

[30knees]

Hi @datakick,

I'd like to mass assign a second category to all products. Under the 'products' collection I see 'default category' but not 'category' itself. How can I assign a second category to all products without changing the default category? https://www.getdatakick.com/collection/products/ says that there is the field 'categories'. 

Thanks!

[datakick]

Hi,

unfortunately mass update does not support changing associations between records, so it's not possible to assign category to product this way. Mass updates can only update record fields. 

It's true that product record has 'categories' field, but this is virtual/read only field for export purpose only.

The only way to modify associations using datakick is via import functionality.

[Wartin]

I think that you can assign another category using prestools, if you are using it.

Just select 'category' as editable, and then use mass editor to add the new category (after creating it from backoffice). If you don't write anything and press search you will edit every product in the database.

 

[30knees]

Ah, nice. Thank you for the tip!