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Fetching Categories from Akeneo

In Alumio, go to “Integrations → Incoming → Akeneo - Fetch - Categories”. You need to get all categories from the Akeneo system to ensure the parent children relation can be sent in the right order. To do so, we use an Incoming “Akeneo - Fetch - Categories” to get data from the Akeneo Server.
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This incoming creates a task inside Alumio with data structured as Alumio base categories. There are the following transformers inside this Incoming before processing the category:
  1. Akeneo - Prepare convert category - Labels - To localizations.
  2. Akeneo - Convert - Category - To Alumio Base.
  3. Akeneo - Filter - Category.
Akeneo - Prepare convert category - Labels - To localizations This transformer converts label data from Akeneo. 
"labels": {
  "de_DE": "E-commerce",
  "en_GB": "E-commerce",
  "en_US": "E-commerce",
  "es_ES": "E-commerce",
  "fr_FR": "E-commerce",
  "it_IT": "E-commerce",
  "nl_NL": "E-commerce",
  "pt_PT": "E-commerce"
},
Since this structure is not compatible with CommerceTools, this transformer converts it into a more suitable and workable format. 
"localizations": [
  {
    "localeCode": "de_DE",
    "translation": "E-commerce"
  },
  {
    "localeCode": "en_GB",
    "translation": "E-commerce"
  }
]
  • You can determine the root category you want to send to CommerceTools by filling the Environment Variable AKENEO_ROOT_CATEGORY, you can also empty this to send all categories inside Akeneo
Akeneo - Convert - Category - To Alumio Base This transformer converts the whole category data into Alumio Base data. 
{
  "code": "master",
  "parent": null,
  "localizations": [
    {
      "localeCode": "de_DE",
      "translation": "E-commerce"
    },
    {
      "localeCode": "en_GB",
      "translation": "E-commerce"
    },
    {
      "localeCode": "en_US",
      "translation": "E-commerce"
    },
    {
      "localeCode": "es_ES",
      "translation": "E-commerce"
    },
    {
      "localeCode": "fr_FR",
      "translation": "E-commerce"
    }
  ]
}
Akeneo - Filter - Category Use this transformer to filter previously created tasks into categories to avoid duplication.
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If you need to recreate a task, remove the entity first from the storage “Akeneo - Filter - Categories”.

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Fetching Categories from CommerceTools

  • In Alumio, go to “CommerceTools - Fetch - Categories”. Before deploying product types, fetch the current categories from Commercetools to determine whether a create or update operation is required.
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To do so, use the Incoming “CommerceTools - Fetch - Categories” to get data from the CommerceTools Server. The following transformer saves the data inside the Incoming configuration:
  1. CommerceTools - Update Storage - Category.
CommerceTools - Update Storage - Category This transformer saves the category data inside Alumio storage for sending the categories.

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Sending categories to CommerceTools

The task that was created through Incoming “Akeneo - Fetch - Categories” will then be processed further by the Route “Synchronize Categories - From Akeneo into CommerceTools” and will be sent using this Outgoing. This Outgoing configuration transforms Alumio Base Categories into the CommerceTools format and determines whether to create or update a category based on data from the previous iteration. Outgoing data is processed by the following transformers:
  1. Alumio Base - Convert value - Localization localeCode into CommerceTools localeCode.
  2. CommerceTools - Prepare convert - Category - Parent from Alumio Base Category.
  3. CommerceTools - Convert - Category - from Alumio Base Category.
  4. CommerceTools - Check and send - Category.
Alumio Base - Convert value - Localization localeCode into CommerceTools localeCode This transformer converts the localCode value inside localizations into the localCode that CommerceTools uses. This will transform local code looking like “en_US” into “EN-US”. CommerceTools - Prepare convert - Category - Parent from Alumio Base Category. This transformer checks the parent and maps it into the CommerceTools id. CommerceTools - Convert - Category - from Alumio Base Category. This transformer converts the Category from Alumio Base into CommerceTools. CommerceTools - Check and send - Category. This transformer references the commercetools ID from the previous iteration to determine whether to create or update the category in the CommerceTools system. An example of a payload creation: 
{
  "parent": {
    "typeId": "category",
    "id": "1b391ecc-e8ed-4b7c-b5d8-c46fe8c5f7bc"
  },
  "key": "Avast",
  "orderHint": "0.1",
  "slug": {
    "EN-US": "avast-avast"
  },
  "name": {
    "EN-US": "Avast"
  }
}
An example of the updated payload: 
{
  "actions": [
    {
      "slug": {
        "DE-DE": "zep-zep",
        "EN-GB": "zep-zep",
        "EN-US": "zep-zep",
        "FR-FR": "zep-zep",
        "JA-JP": "zep-zep"
      },
      "action": "changeSlug"
    }
  ],
  "version": 2
}

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Automatic Categories Synchronization Setup

  • In Alumio, go to “Integrations → Schedulers → Akeneo - Fetch Categories”.
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  • Set a schedule expression and enable the configuration.
  • Go to “Integrations → Schedulers → CommerceTools - Send - Collection”.
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  • Set a schedule expression and enable the configuration.