Use category names, urls and description from another store

Question

I have 1 default store view in danish and 2 additional store views in english, one of which I have just created. This new english store view is (obviously) using my names, descriptions and urls for the categories from the default danish store view.

However, I would like to change all categories in this store view to use the information from the same categories in my existing english store view.

So - how can I make one store view's categories use information from another store view instead of the default?

Answer 1

Unfortunately you can't. Copying data only works with direct parents.

One option would be to place the English store view under a separate store under Manage Stores and assign it the same category tree as the other English store view.

However, this only works if you're already using different category trees for different stores with the translations on the global level.

[EDIT] Another option would be to do it via an import. Either use FastSimpleImport (https://github.com/avstudnitz/AvS_FastSimpleImport) that supports category data imports or write a basic script.

Mage::app()->setCurrentStore($storeIdFromWhereToCopy);
$collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/category_collection')
  ->addFieldToSelect(array('name', 'description', etc...));

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->setStoreId($storeIdToCopyTo);
foreach ($collection as $item) {
   $category->setName($item->getName());
   $category->setDescription($item->getDescription());
   [...etc...]
   $category->save();
}

Before you run scripts and imports like this always remember to make a backup