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Categories are migrated completely during the store creation process but due to the hierarchical nature of category data, this will lead to categories not being updated/created during the content migration (See “Understanding the Content Migration Screen”).
Although StagingPro will not migrate categories a second time, you are able to create new categories and subcategories and these will be successfully migrated. Creating a new subcategory within an existing hierarchy will however fail through the Content Migration Screen.
There is a solution to this and this is in the form of the “Product Catalog Screen”. Any categories and brands which are created in the staging environment as part of a product will be migrated by using the Product Catalog Screen. Simply select only the products that you want to move and press migrate.
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