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Switch from selections to the built-in brand feature
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If you currently have brand pages built with product categories, where a selection has been set up for each brand – along the lines of this:
you can switch over to the built-in brand feature as follows.
1: Transfer content from categories to brands
If you have written descriptions of your brands via the product categories, in the fields Description and Extra descriptions on the General tab:
you need to copy it over to the corresponding fields on the brands via Product catalogue > Brands
where you click Edit to open each brand.
2: Activate the new brand feature
You now need to activate the new brand feature as shown in the guide here.
3: Redirect web addresses
To help search engines and others on their way, you should set up redirects of your web addresses.
You do this by going to the customer login here
There, click the domain name of your online shop and open the Redirect URL function
If you have an old brand page that looks like this:
http://minbutik.dk/apple-185/
you need to create a redirect like this:
When you have created your redirect, click the Update button. It will work within about 10 minutes. Each time you click the Update button, you get fields to add 5 more.
Remember to redirect the brand overview page as well.
If it looks like this, for example:
http://minbutik.dk/maerker-87/
you need to create a redirect like this:
4: Switch off the old brand pages
Finally, you can now switch off the old brand pages.
You do this by editing each category and removing the tick for display on the General tab:
Remember to switch off the old brand overview page as well.
You have now moved over to the new brand feature, and in future it will be much easier to add and remove brands and to build brands into other places in your online shop.