categories

Use the categories data format creator to export categories of the type Item and save this data in the cloud. The raw data file is stored in the cloud for a maximum of 6 months. Therefore, the data must be processed before this date. The following tables contain further information about the format.

1. Technical specifications

See Table 1 for further information on the available properties and their corresponding values.

Table 1. Technical specifications of the format **categories**
Property	Meaning	Value	Explanation
dataName	Name	categories	Name of the creator process and prefix of the created file. File name: categories-xxx.csv.gz
fileFormat	File format	CSV, GZIP	The data is provided as a GZIP-compressed CSV file (RFC 1952).
limitPage	Lines per request	up to 4,000	The maximum number of data rows that is written into a single file.
limitDay	Lines per day	up to 20,000	The maximum number of data rows that is written on one day in total.
earliestPossibleDataDate	Earliest point in time	2020-01-01	Point in time as of which the raw data can be collected. The data is filtered by the date saved in the dataUpdatedAtColumnName column.
filterType	Filter type	lastUpdate	Data are filtered based on the last update.
dataUpdatedAtColumnName	Column header	c_updated_at	Name of the column that contains the time stamp of the last data update.
defaultActive	Activated by default	no	The data is only exported automatically in the background after you have activated the creator in the Setup » plentyBI » Raw data menu.
interval	Interval	daily	With this setting, all data that has been changed since the last run is exported once a day, usually during the night.
storableFromPlan	Storage starting from tariff	plentyBI XS	Minimum fee plan required for saving the data in cloud storage and making it available via REST.
processableFromPlan	Usage starting from tariff	plentyBI L	Minimum fee plan required for making the data available in plentyBI Data Warehouse, i.e. for using, filtering and processing key figures.

2. Data columns

See Table 2 for further information on the categories data columns included in the CSV file during raw data export.

Table 2. Data columns of the format **categories**
Property	Data type	Full name	Explanation
plenty_id	INTEGER NOT NULL	plenty ID	ID of the plentymarkets system
c_id (Primary key)	VARCHAR NOT NULL	category ID	Category ID
c_parent_id	VARCHAR	category parent ID	ID of the higher-ranking category. The field is empty for categories on level 1.
c_level	SMALLINT NOT NULL	category level	Category level
c_type	VARCHAR NOT NULL	category type	Category type item = Categories of the type Item
c_name	VARCHAR	category name	Category name
c_updated_at	TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL	category updated at	Time stamp of the last update Date format: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI:SS TZ