Hi ikoshin when you plan advanced import category mapping
Hello,
Category mapping is an important feature that would be nice to have, no doubt about it. But as Ilya mentioned earlier, development would be complicated, and right now we're working on other requested functionality. Here's
the latest report of what we're working on.
So unfortunately, category mapping isn't planned for the near future. When we add new functionality, we have to set priorities. Priorities depend on many factors, but I can narrow them down to three:
1. How many people request the functionality?
2. How difficult it is to implement and support it?
3. Are there any other ways to address the problem right now?
[...]
As for Categories. Unfortunately in order to add categories in XML import we have to spend many resources from development department cause many possible relations should be considered.
Instead we will make an easy way to manage categories of imported products on the product list.
So the scenario will be
1. You import products
2. Switch to product list and select Recently updated search.
3. Select the products and apply the required categories to them.
This scenario has already been implemented: products that already exist in your store can be easily assigned to any categories you want right from the
Products > Products menu. Categories can also be mapped via modifiers during the import, although it's more complicated and might not suit everyone.
For those who need category mapping urgently, there are also a couple of third-party product import add-ons with that functionality.