Activating or deactivating category types

Activate/Deactivate Category - A summary of the activity

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This activity allows you to activate or deactivate the selected category type.

The “Activate/Deactivate Category Types” page appears.

Category

Use the drop-down list box to select the category for which the category type is to be activated or inactivated. The system displays the options "Carrier Language", "Carrier Master", "Freight Term", "Inco Terms", "Issued to Location", "Reason Code", "Sales Purpose", "Shipment Type", "Transportation Mode", "Market", "Industry", "Region", "Segment", "Sub Segment", ”Customer Group Type”, ”Part Price List Category”, ”Service Price List Category" and "Shipping Label”.

Status

Use the drop-down list box to select the status of the category. The system displays the options “Active”, “Inactive” and “Both”.

The system displays the following in the “Category Type Details” multiline:

Status

The status of the category type, which could be “Active” or “Inactive”.

Default

Indicates whether the category type is set as default or not.

Category Type

The type of category.

Description

The textual description of the category type.

To activate the selected category type

Note: Only category types in the “Inactive” status can be activated.

The status of all the selected category types is updated as “Active”.

To deactivate the selected category type

Note: Only category types in the “Active” status can be inactivated.  If the category type selected for inactivating is set as a “Default” then that category type cannot be inactivated.

The status of all the deactivated category types is updated as “Inactive”.

The system displays the following:

Created By

The login ID of the user who created the category type.

Created Date

The date on which the category type was created.

Last Modified By

The login ID of the user who last modified the category type.

Last Modified Date

The date on which the category type was last modified.

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What you can do in this page

Activate category type

Deactivate category type

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