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When using Magento default installation, products can only be assigned to categories manually.
With Dynamic Category, products can be dynamically assigned to categories based on product attributes.
This extension allows you to define product conditions (general and special conditions) for each category, as well as custom product positions and to select matching products.
Follow this guide to know how to use the Dynamic Category extension.
Dynamic Category allows you to define your own conditions from:
Catalog › Manage Categories
Select the category for which you want to define conditions and go in the below tab:
Category Products › Dynamic Products
With Dynamic Category, you can define conditions based on the products attributes of Magento.
Click on the arrow from the Dynamic Products subtab.
From the product attributes list, choose the attribute you want to create a condition for (color, size..).
Attribute Set is Clothing
By clicking on Refresh Matching Products, you should get all the products that match the condition.
Besides the product attributes conditions, Dynamic Category comes with very useful additional conditions that allow you to customize product conditions easily.
Is Salable is Yes
In Promo is Yes
Is New is Yes
Created during the last 5 days
Quantity In Stock is 100
In Stock is Yes
Special Price Applied is Yes
Product Type is one of Simple Product, Virtual Product, Downloadable Product
Has Image is Yes
Total Child Products Quantity In Stock is 10
Replace Matching Simple Products By Parent Products and Keep Orphans
Attribute Set is one of Clothing, Eyewear, Jewelry, Shoes
Attribute Set matches regexp bath|decor
In the case where you already have created some categories conditions and that you want to assign the same rules for another category, you can directly import these conditions from the Import Category Conditions tab.
All you need to do is to choose the category from which you want to retrieve the conditions and then click on Import.
The conditions will then be displayed in the Dynamic Products tab. You still have the possibility to change some values if needed.
For better frontend performances, the products that match conditions are indexed in the native Magento database table.
Products are then retrieved in the frontend just like Magento default behavior and in the order that you have defined in the backend.
Because products may not match defined conditions anymore (attribute has changed, the promotion has expired), they have to be indexed periodically in order to refresh the products list both in the backend and in the frontend.
There are several ways of indexing your products:
You can manually index your products and categories in:
Catalog › Manage Categories
Choose a category from the Category Products tab, click on Refresh Matching Products.
You have the possibility to reindex all your categories using the following command line:
php shell/Wyomind_Dynamiccategory.phpThe matching products are indexed for performance purposes.
If a product does not match the defined conditions anymore, you’ll have to wait until the scheduled task has finished (by default, every 24 hours) for the product to be removed from the list.
You can change the configuration of the scheduled task and change the expiry date before refreshing the product list in:
System › Configuration › Wyomind › Dynamic Category › Settings
24
Note that the default Magento cron.php task must be configured for this to work.
This extension works with Magento Community Edition and also Magento Enterprise Edition. To know if Dynamic Category is compatible with your Magento version, please check the Compatibility tab.
We offer our customers who want to migrate their Magento 1 license to a Magento 2 license, the transfer at a reduced price.
You have the possibility to migrate your license directly from your Wyomind account in:
My account › Licenses & Downloads
Click on migrate to magento 2 in front of the extension and the domain you want to transfer.
Confirm you want to migrate your license to a Magento 2 license by clicking on Confirm and checkout .
An invoice will be automatically added to your account from:
My account › Invoices
The price of the transfer is equivalent to a 30% reduction compared to the price of the regular Magento 2 license.
You can proceed to the payment by clicking on PP .
Once the payment is done, you can go back to:
My account › Licenses & Downloads
There you will be able to download and install your license for Magento 2.
A license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one single Magento installation.
If you use more than one Magento installation, you will have to buy a separate license for each one.
If you run several domains on the same Magento installation, you will need only one license for all of them.
Although your license doesn’t have a limited period of validity, your support period does. By purchasing an extension, you’ll be granted a 6-month support period for free. Passed this period, you will have to renew your Support plan (see FAQ: How to extend my support period?).You can pre-register your live domain to your license in advance.
Thanks to this option, you'll be able to get the extension ready to use on your domain before it goes live.
To pre-register your production domain:
next to the extension you want your domain to pre-register on.
One license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one Magento installation only.
It is possible, however, to extend or transfer your license in 2 cases:
To be able to use Dynamic Category on both your production and testing environments, follow the instructions below:
Now that you can use Dynamic Category on your production environment, repeat the same steps as above on your testing environments.
The only difference this time: a notification will appear in your Magento admin.
You will be given a choice between:
Click on Add this domain to my license.
A transfer request will then be sent to our team within an hour.
Once the request is taken care of, you will receive a confirmation email.
If your transfer request is accepted, you can use Dynamic Category on both environments at the same time.
The order in which you activate your license on your domains does not matter.In order to download Dynamic Category, log into your Wyomind account:
icon next to Dynamic Category.
A new window opens.
Your download can start.
When purchasing an extension from wyomind.com, you benefit from a lifetime upgrade. You can at any time download the latest version of the extension directly from your account.
To upgrade Dynamic Category, follow the steps below:
next to Dynamic Category.
To uninstall Dynamic Category, go on its zip folder and open it.
You will find a shell file (such as: yourextension-uninstall.sh) that you must execute on both your server and Magento root directory.
Once the uninstallation is over, refresh your cache and enable the compiler back again (if you use it).
Before installing Dynamic Category, you’ll have to:
Now you can install Dynamic Category:
Next step is to activate your license, to do so, click here: Extension activation
Once Dynamic Category is installed, you have to activate the license:
configuration › advanced › advancedIf the message doesn't appear then you must check that:
Wyomind's License Manager has not been removed from your installation.
Wyomind's License Manager is enabled in: app/etc/modules/Wyomind_Licensemanager.xml
The HTML output for Wyomind_Licensemanager and/or Adminhtml_Notification are not disabled in your system under: system
To activate the license of an extension that includes other modules, you’ll have to repeat the steps described above for each extension, using the corresponding activation keys (each module has its own activation key).
If you're getting a white page using the extension, you should enable the error reporting in order to display the error. You can do that from index.php.
Andrew Cattarin
As a Magento 2 user, I love how the Dynamic Category extension keeps my categories up to date automatically based on product attributes. It's been a huge time-saver and has made managing my online store so much easier. Definitely worth trying out!
Magento 2 Store
This extension is very useful. We use it to create auto sale categories and categories for other attributes such as featured, bestselling, etc. A very useful feature is to be able to import the rules that auto select the products from one category to the others. It saves us lots of time. We highly recommend it.
Sal
This dynamic category extension allowed us to create a very detailed backend with products filtered down to very specific attributes. By doing this, we allow products to use both the elastic search to filter products or they can go directly into the folder that already has all the filters applied.
Studioraz
As Ecommecrce agency we use this extension for most of our projects, Its simplify assigning products dynamically to their categories based on specific attribute values.
Mannan Mughal
It's been one year since I'm using Dynamic Category by Wyomind. Very useful & easy to use plugin.
Iphigenie
It works perfectly for grouped products with either visible or hidden simple products. It can properly match on simple product attributes and return the parent product, including for date based attributes like "new to/new from" and sales conditions - better than every other similar "merchandising tool" I had tested before this. Been able to use it for all sorts of scenarios including creating categories that are used solely so other marketing modules like "product labels" or "product highlight" and other "landing pages" that are unable to manage with grouped products. With this module, they can be pointed to "products in xyz category" instead. Anyone who has grouped products will understand the relief of that! There's the odd mystery and early on it was triggering too much cache reset when refreshing a category (with livemage), but considering every other "highlight" "merchanding" or similar tool out there is unable to accommodate grouped products, this is brilliant.
VK
Easy installation and worked pretty much as intended straight away. Saving us a great deal of time!
James
I cant count how much time this extension has saved me over the years on magento 1, I highly recommend to anyone. I definitely will be using the magento 2 version on my next magneto project. Thanks Wyomind!
Shane H
I had the M1 version of this extension and used it without any issues. However, the M2 version has never worked properly. The does not automatically update categories on a schedule. I contacted support and they weren't helpful in resolving the issue. After spending thousands of dollars and 6+ months with our Magento SI trying to get this working, I gave up. I asked for a refund and it was refused.
Shane
I have used the Wyomind dynamic category extension on my M1 store for several years. This extension offers a great deal of advanced capability to add and remove products to categories based on the criteria that I define. This is particularly useful to update sale categories that change as products special price starts and ends. Thanks to this extension, I have been able to set up the criteria and not have to manually update the categories. I particularly like the flexibility in the attributes that I can use to define the categories' critera. I would recommend this extension.
MitchT
Ive tried several and even bought and removed two other extensions that under performed and under delivered This is the best auto dynamic category extension i can find after extensive resurch and implimentations A few nigling things were corrected in upgrade and support was great when i needed it
Matt
All of our products come into Magento 2 from our inventory system with one category each. But we also want these products in a sale category, or a category for a specific type of activity, or maybe a time-of-year category This dynamic category extension allows us to populate many different categories with each of these products based on any number of attribute combinations. It's a game-changer, it's simple to use, and works extremely well.
Jesse
We have been using Dynamic category for over a year now with excellent results. Highly recommended for creating large numbers of specific categories automatically.
OBuchan
I use Dynamic Category to ease manege what's new category.
Kevin - IT Executive
We started our migration project 1.5 years ago, when there were just 3 extensions like that on the market and after some tests, Wyomind dynamic category turned out to be most complete and stable. Can't even imagine what we would do without it.
James
Ive used the dynamic category extension for a long time now and I would not use anything else - it allows me to automate tens of thousands of products. Thank you!
Jan
This module is very easy to install, no problems at all. Once it is setup, it saves you a lot of time. It is definitely worth the money!
Ronny
Very easy to use extension. Just add a filter of attributes to the categories and the extension does the rest! And when something is wrong, just contact the guys at support and they will help you very fast. Response time most times within 15 minutes!
Alexander
Makes my life easier. Worth of its money.
Clicks Online Business
Very good extensions and helpful support.
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