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You asked for it and we listened! We have just released a minor version update to PDG Commerce Version 5 that introduces the ability for you to display products within multiple categories in your webstore. In addition to automatically displaying within it’s primary category and applicable “parents”, this new feature allows you to specify up to 100 additional categories that you would like the product to appear in. Extremely simple to set up, you simply click a checkbox for all the categories that you want the product to be included in.

You’ll access the new functionality within the ‘product details’ section of your PDG admin:

When you click the “multiple categories” link, the follow page will appear (note that the categories appearing in this sample will be replaced with the categories actually set up within your storefront):

The primary category that the product belongs to, as well as any ‘parents’, will automatically be checked. These checkboxes will be grayed out as they cannot be unselected. All other categories within your storefront will appear in an indented list based on the product hierarchy. You may select up to 100 additional categories that you would like the product to appear in from the list simply by checking the box located next to each category. Note that if you want the product to appear in multiple levels of alternate categories, you must click EVERY level that you want the product to appear within (e.g. if you click the box next to “apparel -> mens -> shirts”, product would not be displayed in the “mens” category. Although this is exactly what happens with the primary category that the product belongs to, within the multiple category display, you must explicitly set every level that you want the product to appear in.

Hope everyone enjoys this new functionality!