Remove category branch 

 

In automated daily updates setup when PIM data is feed into the platform category structure may get quickly miss-aligned. Categories can get removed or renamed, or products within the categories can be moved other categories thus leaving them empty. For large sites this presents a problem since triaging thousands of categories on daily basis is a notorious task.

Another use case is when a whole branch of categories needs to be removed and disassociated from products. For example a "Sale X" category may have been created to temporarily give customer easy access to a set of products. After the sale finished and this category no longer needed it may be tedious to remove all associations to products and sub categories (if there were any).

Remove category branch operation allows to scan a category branch and remove the categories. It can do so in different ways depending on options selected: