Dynamic Category: Add a Shop Irish Page

Adding a Shop Irish dynamic category in AB Commerce is a quick way to highlight products which enable your customers to shop local and champion green.

One of the key benefits of setting this page up dynamically is that any new products added to the brands featured on the page will automatically be included on the Shop Irish page without any further action.

Key Steps

• Identify the codes to the Irish Brands you wish to include
• Create the Shop Irish page either at top-level or as a sub-section in your main brands link
• Add the brand category codes to the page to populate with product

Further Actions

• Recommended: Highlight and link to the Shop Irish page from your homepage or sitewide feature
• Optional: Add widget(s) to the Shop Irish page itself to highlight key / exclusive / new brand(s)

Finding the Brand Codes

1. When logged into your admin screens, browse to Catalogue > Categories & Navigation
2. Select Brands from the support navigation
3. Once viewing the brand table in the Code column, make note of the numeric code associated with any of the brands you want to include on your Shop Irish page
   
   

Adding the Shop Irish Page & Adding Product Dynamically

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Adding the Shop Irish Page

1. When logged into your admin screens, browse to Catalogue > Categories & Navigation
2. In the Product Catalogue & Navigation section, find your Brands page in the table and click the View Pages / Sub-categories link in that row
   
   
3. From the page with the list of Pages / Sub-categories, click the Add New Page/Category button
   
   
4. Call your page what you like, e.g. Shop Irish, and set the sort order so that it will appear where you want in the navigation
5. Click Finish and your page has been added
6. Click to Settings > Clear Cache to ensure this new page will appear on your website

Adding Products Dynamically to the Shop Irish Page

1. Browse to the new Shop Irish page on the front-end of your site
2. This page will be empty initially. Click on the Edit Category / Page link just above the page title
   
   
3. This will open the page admin panel on the left. Ensure that both the Active and Show Product List are ticked
4. Scroll down and click on Advanced Settings
5. Add the comma-separated list of the Brand Category codes you noted earlier in the Category Codes text field
   
   
6. Click Save
7. Click Settings > Clear Cache to active those brands on the Shop Irish page
8. Browse back to the Shop Irish page and it will be populated with products from all the brands you've included

This page can be added to in future simply by adding the code(s) for new brands added to the site in the the Category Codes field for the Shop Irish page.