Rebuild Visual Merchandiser Categories for Magento 2

Rebuild Magento 2 Visual Merchandiser categories using the CLI tool or a scheduled task.

⚠️ NOTE: This module is not fully tested, please make sure to test this on a non-production system first, and use at your own risk!

Installation via .zip

1. Download the zip file for the master branch on Github
2. Extract the Dakzilla directory in the app/code directory of your Magento 2 EE project
3. Run the php bin/magento setup:upgrade command to enable the module

Installation via Composer

composer require dakzilla/magento2-visual-merchandiser-rebuild

php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Usage

Rebuild all smart categories from the command line

bin/magento catalog:visual-merchandiser:rebuild

Show information about smart categories

bin/magento catalog:visual-merchandiser:show

The above command should display a nifty table like this one

Enable and set cron job in admin

In Magento Admin, in the Visual Merchandiser options, you can set a cron expression to be used to rebuild the smart categories on schedule. The example below will execute the job every day at 1:45 AM. If you're not sure, use Crontab Generator to create a valid cron expression.

Compatibility

This module was tested on Magento 2 Enterprise Edition versions 2.1.5 to 2.1.7. Compatibility with older versions is not guaranteed, but should not be an issue anyhow.

Changelog

### 0.2 - 2017-06-24

• Fixed an app state bug with the latest version of Magento 2
• Internal refactor
• Added the catalog:visual-merchandiser:show command to display a useful information table about your smart categories
• Added a configurable cron job in admin. From the Visual Merchandiser options, you can now set a cron job to rebuild smart categories automatically. Make sure your Magento cron in configured correctly!

0.1.1 — 2017-03-17

• Fixed major issue where URL keys were missing from collection

0.1.0 — 2017-02-28

• Released!