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What can this OpenMage/magento 1 extension do for you?
Simply put, it can save you valuable time, and it can save you money.
How can it do this?
OpenMage is one of the most powerful e-commerce frameworks available today. Unfortunately, since it was created, the category management admin area never evolved much. This is especially true in regards to how you associate products to your categories.
Currently (even in the latest version), you are required to manually find and associate products to your categories. If you have ever done this, especially when managing a store with a large product catalog, you will know all to well that this is a tedious, and time consuming task. It may even be necessary to hire staff dedicated to this task. Since the task is extremely cumbersome, it may even be possible to accidentally exclude some products from being associated to a category, resulting in potential revenue loss.
Using the Dynamic Category Products extension, the task of associating products to your categories become so simple, and automated. Additionally, the extensions capabilities also allows you to create (and automate) new types of categories. Some examples would be a Best Sellers category, or a Most Viewed Products category.
So how does it actually work?
The Dynamic Category Products extension allows you to define rules to associated products with the category that you are editing. If a product is found in your catalog that matches the rule(s), they will be associated to the category. It is as simple as that. The rules are defined in the same way as those used in the standard OpenMage Shopping Cart Rules, and is thus already familiar to use. No user training is required.
It is also possible to mix rule based and manually selected product associations. This means that you can still manually assign products to a category, even if that category has rules defined. The manually associated products will not be affected by the rules. They will stay associated until manually removed.
Rules can be complex, meaning that you can combine unlimited rule combinations to build the category that you require.
Categories are kept up-to-date
Each day, all categories which has rules defined are rebuilt, thus ensuring that the associated products are kept up-to-date.
If a product is edited, and any of the product attributes are changed (for example color is set from green to black), any category that uses the color attribute in its rules will be rebuilt within a 5 minute cycle. This simply means that the product will appear in the correct category (as defined by the color attribute rule) within 5 minutes.
If a new product is created, or imported, the same 5 minute cycle applies. The product will appear in any category that has the rules that matches the product attributes.
This module does not create a new category system, and has NO REWRITES! All core category functionality remains intact. Due to the fact that there are no rewrites, this extension is super compatible with other OpenMage modules, and should not result in code conflicts with other 3rd party extensions.
Compatible with all version from CE 1.4+ and EE 1.11+
See our examples on the demo site, or create your own examples.
Any product attribute (or attribute combinations) can be used to build the dynamic rules, making the product groupings limitless!
New features are added constantly, most upon request from existing clients.
We offer two types of licences:
Option 1: (the default) Standard licence, per domain. This means you can use the module for one domain name. Example domains that are valid: one.example.com, two.example.com (unlimited sub-domains), or www.mysite.com, www.mystite.com.au, www.mysite.ru (unlimited domains for one store, for the purpose of country/language hosting of the one store. A limitation is that they are hosted on one OpenMage install, as multiple stores. If you have multiple servers, each server requires one licence)
Option 2: Multiple domains, per OpenMage install. This will cover unlimited domain names, all on one OpenMage install.
You do not need licences for development / testing / uat sites. Licences are only required for live sites.
Changelog:
2.0.0 : Initial public release of module
2.0.1 : Add new rule: Category Parent to limit by parent categories
2.0.2 : BUG FIX: New created products do not have origData set
2.0.3 : make attributes available to rules, even if not set to use in rules.
2.0.4 : BUG FIX: Dynamic categories prevented normal category <-> product associations o continue to function
2.0.5 : Fix category_product indexing after dynamic saving
2.0.6 : FEATURE: Ability to set rule using Catalog Price Rules
2.0.7 : BUG FIX: Improve how cron scheduling works
2.0.8 : BUG FIX: string text fields did not do wildcard searches
2.1.0 : FEATURE: Discount specialized rules
2.2.0 : FEATURE: Sales Report rules (stock levels, best sellers and most viewed)
2.2.1 : BUGFIX: Remove ref to giftpromo helpers
2.2.2 : BUGFIX: specialized rules (delayed rules ) did not limit to result of attribute rules
2.2.3 : Change rule layouts, and fix some issues with rule combinations
2.2.4 : Put back string comparison list
2.3.0 : Drop freetext field (using 'contains' rather). Select becomes multiselect, making it possible to select multiple values in one rule
2.3.1 : Adjust multiselect attribute rules
2.3.2 : Fix bug in cron which cleared out dynamic categories on rebuild
2.4.0 : Add Stock availability rule
2.4.1 : Fix issue with 'applied_catalog_rule_id' collection build.
2.5.1 : Fix issue with singular date attributes (not the same as ranges)
2.6.0 : Add Data transform rule. Initial is to load parents of found simples to category.
2.7.0 : Add delayed processing feature
2.7.1 : Add admin option to set max exec time
2.7.2 : Add indexing disabling options
2.7.3 : Add contains / does not contain to strings checking
2.8.0 : Adjust module to be backwards compatible with magento 1.4.1, 1.4.2 and 1.5.x
2.9.0 : Add in updated_at and Created_at product attributes
: Put back Datetext element class file that was somehow dropped at version 2.6.0, introduced in version 2.5.1
2.9.1 : Adjust code to work with older version of php - <b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ')' in <b>/chroot/home/noktwoze/dev4.nok200.com/html/app/code/community/ProxiBlue/DynCatProd/Model/Resource/Category.php</b> on line <b>54</b>
2.10.0 : Add Product type to attributes rules
: Fix display of text fields after save (was not displaying)
2.11.0 : Initial lingkage of giftpromo module for giftpromo rules
2.11.1 : Fix bug surrounding text fields and contains (includes SKU field contains which is a text field in code)
2.11.2 : Adjust how wildcard textual fields are done, allowing for user defined wildcards
2.12.0 : Add ability to transform other attributes to date range
: Add Limiter (start, length)
: Fix bug in rule sequence (attribute rules did not affect results of report rules)
2.12.1 : Fix best sellers not using attribute limitations
2.12.2 : Further adjustments in fixing all sales report with attribute limiters
2.12.3 : Fix issues with data transformation rule and order of sales reports when used together
2.12.4 : Fix ordering issue in sales reports
2.12.5 : Fix non array in foreach in category resource
2.12.6 : Fix bug with empty sql (null results sets)
2.13.0 : Add in Least viewed and Least sellers rules
2.13.1 : Fix role permissions. Must have Categories role to allow usage of rules.
2.13.2 : Fix data transformation issue dropping items.
: Fix blank sl query in final product availability test
2.13.3 : Fix attributes with defaults not found (never saved, thus had no value, thus need to null it)
: Fix data transformation not adding simples and parents
2.14.0 : Add new column to Catalog Product Grid that shows which products are dynamic
: Add ability to set positions on dynamic assigned products !
: Fix cron and shel scripts to use the same code as the observer when category saved. less code, and works the same as admin saved.
: Fix data transformation rules to allow manually (non dynamic) products to be added as well
3.0.0 : Complete rewrite of how rule collections are built. Massive speed increase to resulting data
3.0.1 : Fix issue with Products Found rules dropping out on save in admin
3.0.2 : Move variable declarations outside try block in cron.
3.0.3 : Fix bug with data transformation rules not populating
3.1.0 : Category Attribute control
3.2.0 : Regex rules
3.2.1 : Fix display of non dynamic ticks, add rule to eliminate non dynamic upon save
3.2.2 : Add hints to admin - show version number
3.2.3 : BUG FIX: Issue with ANY and specials
3.2.4 : BUG FIX: Issue with Category Ids attribute and not in / not one of
3.2.5 : BUG FIX: Join issue on special price date table linkage
3.2.6 : Initial release of v3 backported to pre magento 1.6
3.3.0 (3.2.7) : Notifications functionality
3.3.1 : Fix bug with joinfield duplication in collection
3.3.2 : Move debug to own log file
: Fix bug with multiple rules and dropping of special attribute filters in built sql.
: Start of coding standards cleanup
3.4.0 : Fix all products return if category control is only rule in set
: Add 'ignore attribute default' to bool attribute rules
: FEATURE: Action on parent or current category in category control
3.4.1 : Fix bug with multiple category control rules
3.4.2 : Fix bug when Category Parent is used.
3.4.3 : Fix bug with transformation rules. Seems introduced when category control came in
3.4.4 : Display date range attributes (raw) attribute in the list of attributes as well.
3.4.5 : Fix bug with limiter and last not resulting in last (asc in place of desc in order)
3.5.0 : Add Catgeory is null option to find all products that are not assigned to a category
: Add ability for transposed date range rules to also appear still as single date options
: Cleanup of code in the main product validate - split to multiple smaller functions
4.0.0 : Initial test release of new structure that works with data in batches.
4.0.1 : Bugfix on saving via admin
4.0.2 : Bugfix - remove clone, as the select is still by ref, and removing distinct and group messes up the results
4.0.3 : Add trap for integrity constraint issue in adding items to subselect table
4.0.4 : Fix actual constraint on created table
4.0.5 : Fix issue with removing first linker in query combining. If multiple contains was set, all linkers of SQL
was removed, not just the first
4.0.6 : Fix limiter
4.0.7 : Fix does not contain on multiselect attributes
4.0.8 : Major Code Formatting update
: Fix issues with OR combiner not working right. Must use LEFT not INNER joins
4.0.9 : Tweaks to combiner fix in previous version
4.0.10 : Fix issue with subselect classes and ->save() ->delete() methods compatibility with parent inheritance
4.1.0 : FEATURE: SUB RESULTS
4.1.1 : Just a version update to force push of code to all servers
4.1.2 : Fix issue with subselect pre-dump data and array given
4.2.0 : Add associated website rule clause
4.2.1 : delete stale/old setup file with incorrect subselect db create sql
4.2.1/2 : Fix definition of subselect table - FK had issues in magento < 1.6
4.2.3 : fix bug for magento < 2.6 an category ids rule
4.3.0 : Feature: Remove manually assigned products from category (with global)
: Feature: Remove manually assigned categories from products (with global)
4.4.0 : Feature: Transformation: Add associated of complex types
4.5.0 : Feature: Dynamic Variables : Category attributes
4.5.1 : Fix bug in date range not in range and nulls
4.6.0 : FEATURE: Initial release of Parent Rules
4.6.1 : Code quality improvements
4.6.2 : More code cleanups
4.6.3 : Pure release increase
4.6.4 : Fix issues on parent categories and keeping of manually assigned products
4.6.5 : Fix rules issues/instabilities created by Parent rules
4.6.6 : Fix rules issues/instabilities created by Parent rules
4.6.7 : Fix rules issues/instabilities created by Parent rules
4.6.8 : Fix issue with dynamic not removing if all rules cleared
4.6.9 : Fix manually assigned products dropped, if category parent rule is used on category parent of same id
4.6.10 : Fix child categories not rebuilding if they have parent rules, but not any of their own rules
: Change delayed categories to be removed after category saved, thus ensuring they are retried if anything did go wrong
4.6.11 : Ability to include parent rules using first set linker
4.7.0 : Refactor code to contain functionality and not depend on core - makes compatibility easier
4.7.2 : Fix Sales Rule Discount in older magento with no constants for tule types
4.7.2.1 : Temp deploy for magento 1.4 fix of parent rules
4.7.3 : Improve code to determine _to / _from date range attributes
4.8.0 : Ability to disable internal cron
4.8.1 : Feature: Ability to keep manually assigned products (do not become dynamic)
: Feature: Ability to add in dynamic dates to strings eg {{date(Ymd)+1}} will output 20150502
4.8.2 : Fix bug caused by 4.8.1, which was breaking textual field matches that are not using placeholders
4.9.0 : CRON mode is now EXTERNAL by default
: 100% compatibility with Advanced Admin Grids module
: Drop own limited enhanced grids display, and only ads in dynamic column.
4.9.1 : Fix bug with Sales reports and parent rules causing COLUMN and FROM dropping from replaced collection
4.9.2 : Fix issue where cron rebuilds did not rebuild parent based rule categories (and the children that only worked on parent rules)
4.9.3 : Fix issue when creating ROOT category, parent rules non existence bailed code
4.9.4/5 : Adjust how --type all rebuild works, as combined sql does not seem reliable on all installs
4.10.0 : FEATURE: Product Tag Rules
4.10.1 : Adjust to no longer force re-index on category save.
4.10.2 : Fix error about ambiguous path in parent category rules
4.10.3 : Fix transformation running before sales reports
4.10.4 : Fix discount rule to include to/by type of action operators
4.10.5 : Fix transformations rules properly, plus some improvements to some areas
: Fix Applied Catalog Rules when used with a FALSE condition in rule set
4.11.0 : ??
4.11.1 : ??
4.11.2 : Adjust Catalog Rules to do a merged collection, and no longer build a list of ids to later be used in the merged ids section
Complete eliminate the merge ids functionality, as it is now obsolete
Add additional operators to catalog rule
This all solves SUPP-7358659305144
4.12.0 : Add Is Saleable rule.
4.12.1 : Adjust Catalog Discount Rules to include a limiter for websites
4.12.2 : Adjust Price discounts to also have a website limiter as part of the actual rule
4.12.3 : Adjust discount rules to have a WHERE clause, thus allowing the combiner to work
: Fix ANY rule conditions
4.13.0 : Add last rebuild date display
: Add save category with skip rebuild button
4.13.1 : Fix erand OR/AND when using discount rules with other rules
4.13.2 : Fix limits adding extra results per batch
4.13.3 : Fix another errand combiner from discount rules combined
4.13.4 : Adjust to work in magento 1.5.1
4.14.0 : Add ability to flip the save - so normal save does not rebuild rules
4.15.0 : Dynamic Date Variables in Date fields
4.15.1 : Add fix for bad setting of is_dynamic flag in version 4.14
4.15.2 : Further fixes for incorrect setting of is_dynamic, and clearing out null rules
4.15.3 : Add switch to shell to clear out all rules in categories
5.16.0 : Refactor subselect code
: Refactor how transformation rule results are loaded using subselect
: Drop old unused code for collection replacement
: Add new rules into transformation dealing with product counts
4.16.1 : Adjust to strip cat_index tables outside websites clauses
4.16.2 : Ensure cron rebuild uses admin store
4.17.0 : Sorting Rules
4.18.0 : Final Price transformation
4.19.0 : Rename transformations to filter
: In Stock Filter
4.19.1 : Rework Filters to be more efficient.
: Ability to run filters on existing products, if no results in rules/or any rules.
4.19.2 : Fix page size bug in filters
4.19.3 : Add grid views for build tables. Limit the rebuild to 5 records at a time
4.19.4 : Adjust Cron to work with the forced parent build option
4.19.5 : Add ability to do best/least sellers, based on revenue
: Fix bug in rule ordering.
4.20.0 : Ability to copy rules between categories
4.20.1 : Fix PHP version compatibility with using empty()
4.21.0 : Import / export
4.22.0 : Ability to update product attributes after pulled into category
4.22.1 : Adjust category copy list to ajax in, decrease load time on category
4.23.0 : Best/Least sellers by profit
4.23.1 : Trap multiselect attribute not having any values selected in rule
4.23.2 : place cli run behind a debug block. Must have debug enabled to see cli output
4.23.3 : Adjust last rebuild to work on store timezone
: Change how emails are sent so they use template system and not zend_mail direct.
4.23.4 : Add config value to limit cron build records per usage
4.23.5 : Fix Manual Positions lost
4.23.6 : Adjust the Sales report Profit / revenue rules to work with preceding attribute limiters
4.23.7 : Add cache to category list in rule copy area
: Set multiselect attributes to append, not replace
4.24.0 : Add website limiters to all sales reports
4.24.1 : Fix issue with parsing date range xml file
4.24.2 : Remove distinct from subselect batch count sql - drops of batches short
4.25.0 : Ability to increase/decrease attribute values using rules.
4.25.1 : Fix batches dropping off last products on pages. Added onepage to page count ot fix issue with stragglers
4.25.2 : Fix bug with rule copy - no such element
4.25.3 : Fix position order lost when filtering out non dynamic products #SUPP-7176457462832
4.26.0 : Intersect on category lists - so product must appear in given list of cats, to be valid.
4.27.0 : Add no Image filter
4.27.1 : Add time display for each build from cron
4.27.2 : Adjust filter on special price to block price == special_price
4.27.2.1 : Experimental release with faster cron associations
4.27.2.2 : Fix position data lost when new cron runs
4.28.0 : Release code on 4.27.2.2 as mainstream version
: Fix issue with observer called with wrong param object
4.28.1 : BUG FIX: Multiple parent level rules pulling from same attribute table would rop multiple rules joins tables
4.28.2 : Bug fix: dynamic date variables did not consider timezone of magento store.
4.28.3 : Fix bug with insert multiple on cron causing duplicate constraint sql errors
4.28.4 : Fix issue where numeric values in TEXT attributes do not correctly filter. => 69 not result in value with 120
4.29.0 : Add in shell switch that ads in ability to list all categories that uses a given list of attribute codes
4.30.0 : Add ability to get products that has not value set in multi select / drop down select attributes
4.31.0 : Add in A stock level filter
4.31.1 : Fix issue in attribute updates where products in single store setup belongs to store_id 0
4.31.2 : Further fix to solve a race condition on category data. When using a category id rule, and the other category has not yet populated, result is skewed.
4.31.3 : Adjust code form 4.31.2 and prevent re-build category code form skipping remove all dynamic products
4.31.4 : Fix last build time for cron runs
4.31.5 : Fix incorrect class on decrease attribute fixed. Add debug to update attributes
4.31.6 : Adjust attribute updates to set by store, not website
4.31.7 : Add in legacy cron rebuild as an option
4.31.8 : Fix array_flip in update code form loosing product ids when there are multiple values (ordering) that is teh same
4.32.0 : Fix changedRebuild incorrect join not finding all categories to rebuild (SUPP-2186814503278)
: Fix child category not rebuild if parent has rules, and the child is inactive
: add events fired on attribute update code, so can extend to custom special case attributes
4.32.1 : Fix saving of date on cron not working when flat categories enabled
4.33.0 : Revert back to original cron saving and set the 'new' way as experimental. Seems there are issues in latest 1.9.3 with new way
4.33.1 : Fix date range issue with ALL based rules
: Eliminate Recoverable Error: Object of class Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Category_Collection could not be converted to string in /var/www/vhosts/www.escapade.co.uk/htdocs/app/code/community/ProxiBlue/DynCatProd/Model/Adminhtml/Observer.php on line 460
: Change how sorting is done fixing date sorting
4.33.2 : Fix repetitive indexing on cron run
4.33.3 : Add initial enable indexers before issuing a re-index
4.33.4 : Try and fix the over indexing that has been reported. This change pushes the parent rebuild into delayed build.
4.33.5 : Only re-index catalog events
4.33.6 : Fix issue with export profiles and magento 1.5.1.0
4.33.7 : Fix issue where Category Id rules expect an array, but integer is used in foreach
4.33.8 : Adjust Date rule: is X days ago on day of viewing to only include products up to the day if viewing, excluding future set dates
4.34.0 : Add new options for X days ago:
: is X days ago on day of viewing, up to and inclusive of day of viewing
: is X days ago on day of viewing, only for that day, not any days prior, or after
: is X days ago on day of viewing, including days prior
4.34.1 : Check if attribute in update rule still exists, before attempting to effect update of value. Alert via debug message of occurrence
4.34.2 : Change location of cron lock files to magento temp folder, away from a global folder.
4.35.0 : Block attribute delete if said attribute is used in any Dynamic Rules
4.36.0 : OR subset rules to include parent rules
4.37.0 : Display total time to build
4.38.0 : Add ability to use SUB RESULT in parent rules
4.38.1 : Fix attribute delete attribute match in rules to be more exact. styles tripped up by xxxx_styles as an example
4.38.2 : Fix Has No Value directive on SELECT attributes
4.38.3 : Adjust cron to not change indexer mode
4.38.4 : Fix error in logs: Notice: Use of undefined constant is_parent_rule - assumed 'is_parent_rule'
4.38.5 : Adjust to also trap mass attribute changes for rebuild from product grid
4.38.3 : Adjust cron to not change indexer mode
4.38.4 : Fix error in logs: Notice: Use of undefined constant is_parent_rule - assumed 'is_parent_rule'
4.38.5 : Adjust to also trap mass attribute changes for rebuild from product grid
4.38.6 : Lock index disable/enable to default config level, so indexing options can not be set at store level
4.38.7 : adjust rebuild to be more optimal on delayed rebuild
4.38.8 : Adjust stock filters to always include not managed stock items 4.39.0 : Add stock level (by website) sorting 4.40.0 : Test for main rebuild lock in delayed and changed builds. : Eliminate rebuild of same categories when a category is a child and a parent : Some attempt to decrease memory usage. : Attempt to fix Delayed cron wipes all products issue 4.40.1 : Additional debug info to trap bug issue 4.40.2 : Adjust Special Price rules to honour Store Price Scope value 4.40.3 : Add Price Scope Attribute adjusted, allowing to set website for price scope when in non global price mode 4.40.4 : Bump TodayDate by one day, ensuring products of today are included (timezone issue?) : Only all cron build will initiate empty category emails
4.40.5 : Fix long standing bug with editing rules with category lists select options not working
4.40.6 : Fix bug introduced with price scope adjustment on 4.40.3 related to usage of % for discounts
4.40.7 : Further changes to accommodate price scope of specials
4.41.0 : Add in Inject at top rule to inject given SKUs to result (can be used for HERO)
4.41.1 : Fix bug where core promo rules action category selects don't work
4.42 : PHP 8.1 compatibility
Features
- {{CATEGORY>NAME}} - match the category name
- {{CATEGORY>URL_KEY}} - match the url key of the category
- Shop by Brand
- Shop by Color
- Shop all Sale Products
Works with Percentage or fixed discount amounts. Works with Catalog Price Rule discounts given - Shop by Category X and Y (combine categories into one category)
Uses lookup lists to define categories. No need o recall category details when defining rules! - Shop by product that cost more than or less than $$
- Shop by products that has any word in the description, using wildcards as well!
- Shop by products that are low in stock
- Shop by Most Viewed products
The rule example also shows some LIMIT rules that can be defined. It is thus possible to show your TOP XX Most viewed Products. LIMITS can be added to any rule combination - Shop By Best Selling products
- Date Range (To / From) is handled specially, and allows for a definition of 'on the day the category is viewed'
- Target the Least selling and Least Viewed Products
- SKU starts with - Rule defined as AAA%
- SKU contains - Rule defined as %AAA%
- SKU end with - Rule defined as %AAA
Category by Product Attribute:
The most basic feature of this extension, is the ability to add products to a category, based on the product attribute values, or combination of values. You can even go as far as creating top level category rules, which filters down to all child categories.
This unique feature of 'Parent Rules' allows you to simplify the rules on all child categories, and enhance results.
Some random example. The rule combinations are really left up to your imagination.
Using rule based Category product Association, you can acheive results, and combination of products not yet thought possible.
You can even keep a category Up-To-Date, daily, if a date range attribute pair with From and To dates are used. The dynamic rule will be smart enough to work out if today, on teh day someone views your category, that they get the correct products on that day (ie, today)
Smart, no need to edit date ranges in teh rules all the time. Set the rule, and forget about it.
Some more advanced features:
Load all products that do NOT have the attribute value set. (IS NULL)
From vesrion 4.30.0, you can do rules that will include all products that never had, or had NULL as the given attribute value.
An example rule woudl be as such:
In the rule above, you are adding a second rule set, designated as OR which will give you the all products that has a NULL, or never had this attribute value set.
Another variation of the rule, in a simpler form:
The rule given above will result in all products that do not have a value set, and the one product that has teh value set to 'ONE'
Category Products Intersect.
Create a new Dynamic Category that consists of all products that appear in ALL the given categories.
Please read the blog article for more information.
Ability to update found product attributes.
Mass-update all / any product attributes, after a product was placed in the category. This feature will help / allow you to get your product attributes better set, with more relevant data.
Please read the blog article for more information.
Full import export via magento dataflow profiles
Fully import or export your dynamic rules between magento servers.
Please read the blog article for more information.
Copy rules between categories / Cut and Paste rules
It is now also possible to copy rules between categories. You can either 'import' rules from another category, or you can copy and paste rules.
Please read the blog article for more information.
Sort by any product attribute
Sorting rules allow you to sort by any combination of product attributes.
Create Category Using product Tags
You can create dynamic categories, based on product tags.
This can range from any named tags, or by the most popular XX count of tags
Parent / Global Category Rules
You can place rules on Parent Categories, which will then be applied to all child categories, recursively.
You can set child categories to exclude parent rules.
If you place a rule on the Top Root/Default Category, every category in your catalog will get that rule applied, making it 100% global
Below a view of the default category. This rule will filter down to the entire catalog.
below you can see the rule defined in the parent category, being noted that it will be applied to the category.
This is also a parent category, so itself can define parent rules, for its child categories.
The child categories will get this parent rule and the parent parent rules applied.
One of the lowest level categories, showing it will apply rules from all the parents.
Dynamic Variables
It is possible to use Dynamic Variables in the rule values.
An example is to find all products that has the category name in the product name.
Variables are placed within double {{ }} curly brackets
Currently the following dynamic variables are supported:
Category Attributes:
Variable format: {{CATEGORY.ATTRIBUTE}} where ATTRIBUTE is any of the category attributes.
Examples :
Add associated products of complex product types
If any complex product type (configurable, grouped or bundle) is assigned to the category, all the associated products can also be assigned to the category.
Remove manually assigned products from category (with global)
Rule setting per category (or a global admin configuration option), which will remove any manually assigned products from the categgory.
Read more: http://support.proxiblue.com.au/kb/faq.php?id=7
Remove manually assigned categories from products (with global)
Rule setting per category (or a global admin configuration option), which will remove any manually assigned categories from any products assigned to the current category.
Read more: http://support.proxiblue.com.au/kb/faq.php?id=7
Category Control actions on Parent Category
It is now possible to set actions onto the current, or its parent category. This will allow you to (as just one example) to set a parent category as disabled, if there are no products found in any of it's child categories.
Email Notifications on certain actions
(actions notifications can be added upon request)
You can now be notified if a category gets less than X products when rebuilt. X can be any number of configured product count.
You can get notified if a category gets disabled by the Category Control rules.
Regular Expressions Pattern Matching:
Ability to use regular expression to match string values in product attributes (example use on Name, description or any textual attribute)
Regular expression patterns follow standard MYSQL Pattern Matching rules: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/pattern-matching.html
To invoke regular expression matching simply prefix any string with rx:
Category Control:
From version 3.1.0 it is now possible to chnage any category attribute values, based on the fact that there are products found in the result. This can, as one example, give you the ability to disable a category when there are no products found using the dynamic category product rules. You can then also add a rule to enable a category if there are results.
This can be handy in dynamic categories that list New products created in the last X days, and sometimes that category can display empty since you have not added any new products.
This is not limited to setting the category as active or enabled. You can manipulate any category attribute, even custom ones.
Using this extension, you can create (unlimited) specialised categories:
some examples:
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Excellent responses, quick, and more Review by Henry
Lucas understands how to communicate with customers, understand their challenges and is (I think very) competent at development at the same time. A valuable combination not seen too often. He added features we liked even though those were not 'must have' for us to move forward with the purchase. So he went the extra mile. I have worked with many Magento developers since 2009 and would not hesitate to express my recommendation. Thank you. (Posted on 18/08/2019)
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Game changer and must have with large catalog Review by Rudy
I sell around 25.000 products in thousands of different categories. It used to be a difficult job to manage all categories. Specially when adding new products.
Now I can setup rules for my categories, and never look back again. I can also use deeper levels than I was comfortable with before. There is no need for maintenance, so I can create categories and trust them to keep updated by the extension.
I had a small question about the extension and got a reply in few hours. Thanks ProxiBlue for this great extension. It really is a game changer for me! (Posted on 19/07/2018) -
Best Support Ever Review by Kenny
I can't say enough about this company's customer support. Module is solid, does what is needed for my site to function like a legit site, and when I couldn't get it to work, the developer went above and beyond what most of module developers will do in order to make sure I could get mine to work. He put in a lot of hours to make sure it works out for me, and I'm really grateful. Top notch, highly recommended! (Posted on 8/03/2017)
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Saves a lot of work Review by jakob from q23media
i really love this extension. it saves us a lot of worktime by creating a good, clean and even up 2 date catalog structures. we use a lot extensions, This is the most detailed and effective extension we have ever used. worth all the (small) money.
we already used this extension years before with lower configuration options and a slow catalog building. but the new version is really really fast (for our catalog with more than 50.000 configurable products) and have a lot of nice options (like last pair - catching the products with only one simple product available). we now can use manually rebuild function to get current categories just in time. thank you very much again. (Posted on 12/11/2016) -
We wanted more…and got it!... Review by Chris Walsh - Just-Clothing.co.uk
We have tried and purchased many different plugins and extensions for many platforms and we can honestly say that the support from Lucas at Proxiblue is the best support we have ever received. We have been using the extension on Magento now for many months now and the support is still outstanding. Not only will Lucas advise you on any problems if needed he will even connect to your server and take a look any related problems – in the past this is something we’ve had to buy “Support Packages” for from other suppliers.
Proxiblue Dynamic Categories Extension is an absolutely vital extension for running Just-Clothing.co.uk. Our site simply would not be able to operate without it – the number man hours this extension takes away is huge, we would need a team to be able to manually do what this extension does in minutes. Running the extension via a cron job each night also means that once it’s setup you can just leave it to do what it does overnight and forget about it!
FULL REVIEW: http://www.proxiblue.com.au/blog/dynamic-category-products-saves-website-build (Posted on 3/08/2016) -
Highly recommended ! Great Service and Awesome Extension! Review by Steph
There are over 30000+ products in my #magento store. I don't know how to manage a lot of categories and products at the backend. Lucky , I found this extension search from google ! Lucas @ProxiBlue provided great service and direction to me for setup the correct rule on my site. They helped me a lots and save a lot of time !
Highly recommended ! (Posted on 12/05/2016) -
Very usefull tool, perfect support! Review by q23media
we bought the extension for a customer and spot while using that we need a special rule for one category.
without any delay ProxiBlue gave us a solution for a good price and solved all problems during develop asap.
now our customer is happy, we are happy and ProxiBlue is total to advise! (Posted on 17/12/2015) -
Good extension and excellent support Review by hiuryanderson
This module helped us a lot with the organization of categories, especially in configurable products. We had a small problem in our installation magento 1.8.1 within hours was solved by the support. I recommend it to everyone. (Posted on 15/10/2015)
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Awesome Time-Saving Review by Robert q23
Great extension. Will save a lot of life time when used right (Posted on 7/10/2015)
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Highly recommended extensions Review by JorisT
This extension saves time and money for any webshop owner.
Had an issue on a magento 1.5.1 installation, reported this to the developer and everything was sorted in a few hours. One of the best developers out there. (Posted on 10/09/2015) -
Great extension & professional support Review by may29
We purchased this extension, after disappointment on another similar one, and we are very satisfied with its quality and performance.
There was a small issue and the support immediately responded to my request and fixed it out.
Very recommended. (Posted on 15/05/2015) -
A Perfect Website Merchandising Tool Review by uberlindy
This is the ideal extension for anyone who has more than 200 products or more than a few categories. Or products which can fit in multiple categories. It allows you to set rules once on a category page and the products just show up on that page. This is the one tool that Magento should have offered natively and makes the platform now so much more functional.
In addition, there was one small bug in the original extension that the developer fixed immediately and deployed it to the latest version. I cannot express to you how many hours of upfront and ongoing maintenance this extension has and will continue to save us. (Posted on 14/05/2015) -
Ingenious Extension Review by psychosash
Dynamic Category Products has saved me 1000s of hours of manual labour.
I mange a site with over 50,000 products and the thought of creating and maintaining categories was frightening.
I am so thankful that I discovered this plugin which automated a very tedious process.
Additionally, Lucas, the developer is very responsive and willing to make customizations when necessary.
One of the highest recommended extensions! (Posted on 8/05/2015) -
Highly Recommended! Review by tal123
I purchased ProxiBlue automatic category plugin. It is far more advanced and feature rich than other plugins I researched, but the greatest thing is that the developer implemented a very complicated feature (Parent Rules) upon request from me for free!
highly recommended! (Posted on 25/02/2015) -
One of the best extensions in Magento Connect Review by jhollm
I have bought/tried extensions from almost every major developer of the entire Magento Connect site. I have requested custom services from most of them too.
This extensions is without doubt one of the best extensions I've bought. It's very well written with no core modifications.
The service is one of a kind. I requested a custom feature and Lucas implemented it less than 1 day! had a small issue with a 3rd party extension an it and was fixed within hours.
I highly recommend this extension to anyone looking to automate the boring and time consuming process of manually assign products to categories. (Posted on 28/01/2015) -
Perfect Solution for Stores with Growing Numbers of New Products! Review by recycledgoods
In all my years running an ecommerce store I always dreamed of a feature that would automatically match our stores products with our categories.
I have never seen anything like this extension before but I must say it made my dream come true.
It’s an absolute must buy if you have a large dynamic growing store.
This is the extension to get if you are adding or creating new products for a Magento store with lots of categories. I have recently developed a Magento store with nearly 40,000 skus and 300 to 400 categories. We have a small team adding new products to the product catalog daily. This extension is going to save us hours if not weeks per year automating the matching of new products with our existing categories. With this extension you use easy to setup product filters for each of your categories that will automatically take all the days’ new products and based upon keywords in the product title (or any attribute or condition) and attach them to your existing categories. If no category match exists you can review those unmatched items and add to or update the category filter on the fly so that future products will match up automatically in the future.
Before I got this extension I had matched up about 15,000 products to our store categories by hand. I bought this extension for the automated matching, but after I purchased the extension I found it did not have a feature I thought it might. I wanted to create a catchall category and have all unmatched products automatically import into that category. That way I could search and filter in that category for unmatched products that I needed to either add to existing categories or create new categories for. I emailed the developer asking how I could set that up. Literally within a few hours Lucas had responded and was able to update the code to search for "null" values which solved my problem.
Worked perfectly with Magento 1.9.1. (Posted on 17/11/2014) -
Completely blown away - Perfect for M2e Pro too! Review by andrewcatz
I use this extension in combination with M2e pro's automatic listing actions for categories - and it's completely changed our whole eBay management workflow... I could not be happier!
It's extremely well thought out, allowing an amazing, seemingly limitless combination of rules not available in other rule engines used in other extensions - I can't even begin to fathom how we will use all it's features in future... but I can see it will support pretty much anything we can think of.
Also a most notable mention to Lucas (Developer), who has provided some amazing support via email over the last week... (wouldn't have been needed if I had been paying attention)... he was not only prompt to reply, but really understands magento and was able to diagnose issues with ease, Kudos! (Posted on 21/10/2014) -
Business made a lot simpler Review by novatech1
This extension has saved us countless hours of work. The usefulness of this extension is unlimited. If you want to assign physical categories for the front end of your store. Or if you want to assign categories that are not shown on the front end for automation this extension will handle it. We have over 37k products and this extension handled them with a breeze. Great job.
On top of all that, the developer is great. Very fast to respond with in depth responses. Thanks again, I can't wait to see what you come out with next, (Posted on 12/10/2014) -
Brilliant, Excellent, Amazing... Review by thewendy
This module is AMAZING. It has transformed our website. It has freed me from chasing stupid import errors to focusing on bigger business problems!!
I really believe the Magento Development community should make this module standard. Who doesn't want categories to autofill? I can't think of any business that would not want to use this.
THANK YOU!!! (Posted on 12/10/2014) -
Great support. Good functions Review by NRNR
This module is really good for adding products to categories automatically. Highly recommended. Great support, Lucas fixed an issue really quickly. (Posted on 1/10/2014)
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The module does what it’s expected to do and does it very well. Review by www.magekarma.com
This extension has been reviewed on http://www.magekarma.com/ - see the review here: http://www.magekarma.com/magento-extension-review/proxiblue_dyncatprod/
"By using this module you will avoid to manually assign products to categories whose content can be dynamically determined by a combination of rules. Considering the time it lets you save it is definitively worth its price." (Posted on 19/08/2014) -
Excellent extension Review by comma_abc
This extension is extremely well thought and coded.
We have purchased and installed it for two of our customers under Magento CE 1.8.1 and we are truly satisfied by its ease of use and functionality.
Its filtering mechanism is great and can really help even a novice administrator create dynamic product lists using extended rules.
Yes, I would totally recommend it for every installation. (Posted on 24/07/2014) -
One of the most useful extension so far Review by aronchi
I'm a deployment & integrations provider, I useCommunity1.8.1
This extension definitely solves the problem of automatically assign products with certain attributes inside proper categories, not forcing store managers to continuously manage catalog. (Posted on 24/07/2014) -
Excellent Extension Review by geissweb
Simply brilliant and excellent extension! Support was friendly, fast and solved my request. (Posted on 23/07/2014)
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Very useful and well built extension - using Magento CE 1.5 Review by Papimaui
This extension is a huge time saver for merchants with large categories as it eliminates the need to manually do the tedious but very important work of assigning categories. Also it eliminates human error that is bound to happen every now and then when employees are manually assigning categories.
The extension can also help improve SEO with minimal effort as it lets you create landing pages that stay updated by themselves.
Highly recommended!
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Great extension and excellent support! Review by mschuler
This extension has helped to eliminate much of the time it has taken us to maintain multiple category structures that constantly change based on season, promotions or other criteria. Having the ability to dynamically assign the products and then leave it alone (all while still being built right into the core category functionality) is everything we were looking for!
There were a few requests I had related to simple/configurable products and Lucas from ProxiBlue was incredibly quick at making the feature enhancements and pushing out an updated version of the module. Great support for a great extension! (Posted on 22/03/2014) -
The best Developer Support ever Review by sevketc
Perfect module, it's work well, only one small issue and the developer support fixed that fast with and update in 1 hour. (Posted on 15/01/2014)
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Search no more! - This extension is an absolute must have! Review by Vivek
This extension is an absolute must have, whether you have 100 or 10000 products, it doesn't make sense to allocate time and resources to assign each product to multiple categories.
If you come up with a new category that you would like to promote, perhaps a seasonal category or a category that contains products of a certain brand that are on sale, you'd have to go one by one and assign each product to the category. With this extension all you have to do is create the category and setup the rules.
We also had issues integrating this extension with GoMage_Navigation, Lucas (The Developer behind ProxiBlue) helped us resolve these conflicts (before we even bought the extension!!).
Lucas is an absolute legend, he's quick, articulate and very professional. Proxiblue is definitely one of the best if not THE best extension provider we have purchased from.
If you're worried about how this extension would play with your setup, worry no more.
I highly recommend this extension to anyone that uses Magento. (Posted on 4/12/2013) -
Great product and great developr Review by David
Couldn't ask for more support and a great module. Thanks very much for all of your help! Will certainly recommend to others. (Posted on 5/11/2013)
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Saving time Review by Jeroen
This extension saves us a lot of time!
We import 10000+ products on a daily base and it is impossible to assign the categories manually.
This extension is helping us to assign the products automaticly to the categories by the attributes!
The help of the developper is very good and he will help you if there are problems.
Thanx! (Posted on 29/10/2013) -
I highly recommend this product AND the developer Review by Brian Sweet
The product is extremely useful... it's not just time-saving, but it allows for some creative categories we weren't able to create before.
One of the best developer experiences I've had. There were a few tweaks needed for our set-up and the developer (Lucas) was incredibly responsive...working tirelessly on updates until it functioned perfectly for us.
This extension is definitely worth the money. (Posted on 24/10/2013) -
Perfect Review by Jeff Riggs
Lucas was not only kind, competent & caring, but most importantly articulate. In matter of just a couple of days he made 4 different changes, all of which met our needs. He was even so kind as to send us an update thereafter. Great module if you want to create categories by product attributes. Our primary use was to create categories by price ranges for different sets of products. It worked perfectly. You can use for any attribute sets you create for your products. Thanks, Lucas! (Posted on 18/10/2013)
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Wonderful product, outstanding support! Review by Stanislav (www.comfortino.com.ua)
I'm very happy with the extension as it's what we've been looking for. We had some conflict with other extensions install and Lucas from ProxiBlue spent a lot of extra time helping us to make everything work. This is one of the best support efforts I've ever seen. He is also very fast on adding new features per request. Great! (Posted on 26/09/2013)
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essential Review by Mike- Kitchen Warehouse
This product is an essential magento extension for anyone wanting to create categories with dynamic products. Particularly useful for sale periods as you can set it to show products that have the special price attribute within a certain date. Also very useful for brand and product range pages (especially for SEO) assuming you have created the correct attributes, as soon as you create a new product it gets put in without any further work. It pretty much works with all created attributes, so as long as you assign attributes to your products correctly, you can create a dynamic category around that. The developer is very active and will help out with modifications or added functionality where possible. (Posted on 12/08/2013)
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