# Assign products to parent cateogry **URL:** \ **Category:** International (English Only)\ **Tags:** general\ **Created:** [11. August 2017 um 13:45 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505 "2017-08-11T13:45:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![roberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@roberto](https://forum.shopware.com/u/roberto)\ **Post date:** [11. August 2017 um 13:45 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/1 "2017-08-11T13:45:22Z")
Hi! I’m trying to do something but without luck at the moment. I have a category, let say phones and inside another category as child, let say accessories. This is a easy structure to create, the problem is I can’t assign any product to phones (it look like a folder), so I created a phones category inside phones: phones –phones –accessories This is working too but the url would be website/phones/phones and also this option appears twice in the menu. Is there any way to do this on shopware? ---
**Author:** ![NextMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/838e76/32.png) [@NextMike](https://forum.shopware.com/u/NextMike)\ **Post date:** [11. August 2017 um 15:22 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/2 "2017-08-11T15:22:44Z")
you could name the subcategory „devices“ or „smartphones“ or something similar ---
**Author:** ![roberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@roberto](https://forum.shopware.com/u/roberto)\ **Post date:** [14. August 2017 um 08:03 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/3 "2017-08-14T08:03:22Z")
Hi NextMike, Thank you for your answer. I can’t rename the category, that was just an example but with the real products can’t do that. Any other idea? ---
**Author:** ![NextMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/838e76/32.png) [@NextMike](https://forum.shopware.com/u/NextMike)\ **Post date:** [14. August 2017 um 08:09 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/4 "2017-08-14T08:09:10Z")
Take it as a general idea, it’s transferable to any structure. And no, you can’t assign products to category which has subcategories. You have to work on your structure. ---
**Author:** ![maxkon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@maxkon](https://forum.shopware.com/u/maxkon)\ **Post date:** [14. August 2017 um 08:10 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/5 "2017-08-14T08:10:54Z")
Hey roberto, We ran into the same issue and we found a compromise solution. We created a sub-category called ‚all‘ inside the main category called ‚food‘. Now in our case we wanted the customer to get redirected to the ‚all‘ sub-category when the customer clicked on the main category point. If that could do the job for you, I could explain the procedure to apply that, in detail.   Maybe it helps, Max Konrad   Edit: You can easily just disable the option that the person sees the ‚all‘ category point in the menu by checking a box in the backend ---
**Author:** ![NextMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/838e76/32.png) [@NextMike](https://forum.shopware.com/u/NextMike)\ **Post date:** [14. August 2017 um 08:12 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/6 "2017-08-14T08:12:28Z")
or, wait, you could test this plugin: [https://store.shopware.com/mbdus01597/manuelle-artikelsortierung-in-kategorien.html](https://store.shopware.com/mbdus01597/manuelle-artikelsortierung-in-kategorien.html) with that you can mess around with the proper structure. ---
**Author:** ![roberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@roberto](https://forum.shopware.com/u/roberto)\ **Post date:** [14. August 2017 um 08:31 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/7 "2017-08-14T08:31:10Z")
Thank you for your answers, @NextMike‍ I’m going to test that plugin, as I can’t change the structure, in this particular case it’s not transferable as it’s very specific. @maxkon‍ at the moment I’m using a similar solution, but instead adding the ‘all’ category as doesn’t make sense on my structure I’m using hidden categories. In your solution, do you have ‘all’ in the url? ---
**Author:** ![maxkon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@maxkon](https://forum.shopware.com/u/maxkon)\ **Post date:** [14. August 2017 um 08:47 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/8 "2017-08-14T08:47:59Z")
Oh okey. Well the name isn’t important so it might work. Yes in my solution I have the all in the url. Though I am totally sure that you could hide that part with a little php script ---
**Author:** ![vanwittlaer](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.shopware.com/vanwittlaer/32/8499_2.png) [@vanwittlaer](https://forum.shopware.com/u/vanwittlaer)\ **Post date:** [17. August 2017 um 12:48 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/9 "2017-08-17T12:48:41Z")
Max, You may also want to consider using the ‘properties’ to serve your needs. You could e.g. define a set ‘phones’ and another one ‘cameras’. Then for phones you could define a property ‘type’ with values ‘phones’, ‘cables’, ‘chargers’ etc. Frontend-access to the properties is easy by using facets, but you could also mirror them by means of product-feed-based categories for access via a category tree. Cheers, Geert ---
**Author:** ![roberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@roberto](https://forum.shopware.com/u/roberto)\ **Post date:** [17. August 2017 um 13:28 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/assign-products-to-parent-cateogry/47505/10 "2017-08-17T13:28:01Z")
Hi @vanwittlaer‍ I’ll give it a try but this seems to be a lot of work just for an ‘easy’ thing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge guys!