Users - Delete categories from OFBiz

[Mathias Weber]

Hello everybody,

 

this one may sound as a very easy and basic question, but I really didn't found a way how to delete a category from the complete application (not only from a catalogue)! Also I wasn't able to retrieve answers from the existing, searchable parts of the OFBiz documentation...

 

Please help me with my trivial task. We are running OFbiz version 3.2.0

Thank you a lot.

 

 

Best regards,
Mathias Weber

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[Andrew Sykes]

Mathias,

It is not easy to delete a category, this is intentional.

Deleting categories, products etc could cause difficulties with auditing
etc.

It's a much better idea to recycle the category, i.e. use it for another
purpose.

If you really must delete, you can do it via the data maintenance tool
in /webtools, however, you need to make sure you understand what
entities will be affected by this action (see entity reference page
in /webtools). The category itself is contained in the ProductCategory
entity, but be careful, especially if this is in production!!!
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[oceatoon]

Hi Mathias

We have found that exporting our data as XML is quite usefull to manipulate and reimport on any ofbiz intance.(webtools/import, export) 

This allows to remove in XML definition file anything we like, but offcourse as Andrew says it implies a good knowledge of the Category Entity Model and its relations, you must figure out exactly what to remove to not break anything . It's a bit teadeous at first but ends up being very usefull.

regards

Tibor

 

On 5/25/06, Andrew Sykes <[hidden email]> wrote:

Mathias,

It is not easy to delete a category, this is intentional.

Deleting categories, products etc could cause difficulties with auditing
etc.

It's a much better idea to recycle the category, i.e. use it for another
purpose.

If you really must delete, you can do it via the data maintenance tool
in /webtools, however, you need to make sure you understand what
entities will be affected by this action (see entity reference page
in /webtools). The category itself is contained in the ProductCategory
entity, but be careful, especially if this is in production!!!
--
Kind Regards
Andrew Sykes <[hidden email]>
Sykes Development Ltd
http://www.sykesdevelopment.com


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