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createProductCategoriesStep - Medusa Core Workflows Reference

This documentation provides a reference to the createProductCategoriesStep. It belongs to the @medusajs/medusa/core-flows package.

This step creates one or more product categories.

Example#

Code
1const data = createProductCategoriesStep({2  product_categories: [3    {4      name: "Shoes",5    }6  ]7})

Input#

CreateProductCategoriesStepInputCreateProductCategoriesStepInput
The data to create product categories.
product_categoriesCreateProductCategoryDTO[]
The product categories to create.

Output#

ProductCategoryDTO[]ProductCategoryDTO[]
idstring
The ID of the product category.
namestring
The name of the product category.
descriptionstring
The description of the product category.
handlestring
The handle of the product category. The handle can be used to create slug URL paths.
is_activeboolean
Whether the product category is active.
is_internalboolean
Whether the product category is internal. This can be used to only show the product category to admins and hide it from customers.
ranknumber
The ranking of the product category among sibling categories.
parent_categorynull | ProductCategoryDTO
The associated parent category.
parent_category_idnull | string
The associated parent category id.
category_childrenProductCategoryDTO[]
The associated child categories.
productsProductDTO[]
The associated products.
created_atstring | Date
When the product category was created.
updated_atstring | Date
When the product category was updated.
metadataMetadataTypeOptional
The ranking of the product category among sibling categories.
deleted_atstring | DateOptional
When the product category was deleted.
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