{"id":997944,"date":"2025-09-12T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ioi.gmbh\/?p=997944"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:07:03","slug":"automatic-conversion-of-product-groups-and-item-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioi.gmbh\/en\/2025\/09\/12\/automatic-conversion-of-product-groups-and-item-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Conversion of Product Groups and Item Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Business Central, the product group has been removed from the item card and is now part of the item category. The transfer from a system that uses product groups to Business Central can be configured in the mapping. For this we look at the finished configuration and then at the transfer and the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mapping of table 5722 Item Category<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ioitempold.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-20250225-164708-1024x115.png\" alt=\"The main group of the Item Category table in Business Central is built from the Item Category table of the source system (Indentation=0)\n\" class=\"wp-image-994224\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The main group of the Item Category table in Business Central is built from the Item Category table of the source system (Indentation=0)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mapping of table 5723 Product Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ioitempold.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-20250225-164522-1024x76.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-994226\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The subgroup of the Item Category table in Business Central is built from the Product Group table of the source system (Indentation=1)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"\u00dcbertragung-der-Inhalte\">Transferring the content<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kevinbatdorf-code-block-pro cbp-has-line-numbers\" data-code-block-pro-font-family=\"Code-Pro-JetBrains-Mono\" style=\"font-size:.875rem;font-family:Code-Pro-JetBrains-Mono,ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,monospace;--cbp-line-number-color:#d8dee9ff;--cbp-line-number-width:calc(1 * 0.6 * .875rem);line-height:1.25rem;--cbp-tab-width:2;tab-size:var(--cbp-tab-width, 2)\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:16px 0 0 16px;margin-bottom:-1px;width:100%;text-align:left;background-color:#2e3440ff\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"54\" height=\"14\" viewBox=\"0 0 54 14\"><g fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" transform=\"translate(1 1)\"><circle cx=\"6\" cy=\"6\" r=\"6\" fill=\"#FF5F56\" stroke=\"#E0443E\" stroke-width=\".5\"><\/circle><circle cx=\"26\" cy=\"6\" r=\"6\" fill=\"#FFBD2E\" stroke=\"#DEA123\" stroke-width=\".5\"><\/circle><circle cx=\"46\" cy=\"6\" r=\"6\" fill=\"#27C93F\" stroke=\"#1AAB29\" stroke-width=\".5\"><\/circle><\/g><\/svg><\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"color:#d8dee9ff;display:none\" aria-label=\"Copy\" class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button\"><pre class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-pre\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><textarea class=\"code-block-pro-copy-button-textarea\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" readonly>DataMigratePro -t deletedata -s 5722\nDataMigratePro -t putdata -s 5722 -i \"EXEC Migration.dbo.&#91;ExportTable&#93; 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