azbij

I want to add a couple of properties at the catalog level. I have
already defined these and am using them for categories and products.

I'm having trouble. I have exported the catalog and added an attribute
to a Catalog node and then imported again, deleting existing data.
This does not show up in Biz Desk.

I have found only terse reference to this - "get your developer to add
attributes by the Catalog API".

Could somebody explain a bit more ********ly what I need to do please?

thanks

Andy

vtadas

Bizdesk does not have the functionality to allow adding custom attributes
to the catalog. To add a custom attribute you should use the
AddCatalogAttribute method on the catalogmanager object.
See this MSDN link
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csvr2002/h
tm/cs_rp_catalogmanager_iupd.asp)
There is also a sample at the end of the link
I am not sure if Bizdesk displays the custom attributes in the Edit Catalog
page though.
You should consider evaluating the new Feature Pack for commerce server.

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I want to add a couple of properties at the catalog level. I have
already defined these and am using them for categories and products.

I'm having trouble. I have exported the catalog and added an attribute
to a Catalog node and then imported again, deleting existing data.
This does not show up in Biz Desk.

I have found only terse reference to this - "get your developer to add
attributes by the Catalog API".

Could somebody explain a bit more ********ly what I need to do please?

thanks

Andy


Thanks
Vinayak Tadas
Microsoft
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azbij

Thanks for your response.
Unfortunately, my live environment (out of my control) is not using
the feature pack, so I need to do without it.

I'm still having difficulties.

I can add an attribute using the CatalogManager and see this in the
exported XML in the <CatalogSchema> node. What I need though is a new
property showing up as <Catalog name="***" newproperty="yyy"
startdate= etc... > for each <catalog> node

Maybe I am using incorrect terminology for property and attribute so
just to clarify:

I want to hold an image for each catalog so that I can generate a
landing page that lists catalog names alongside a relevant image. I
also want to hold a couple of pieces of data like a "hidden" flag for
each catalog.

I also need to be able to update the image filename from BizDesk.

Thanks very much for your help,
Andy

vtadas

The property will appear in the CatalogName element in the xml file if it
has a value.

I added two attributes to the catalog using CatalogManager object and set
the values to the two attributes using
CatalogManager.SetPropertyAttributes, exported the file. The xml file
contains the following elements

<AttributeDefinition AttributeType="CatalogAttribute" name="IsVisible"
dataType="number" />
<AttributeDefinition AttributeType="CatalogAttribute" name="imagefile"
dataType="string" MaxLength="50" />

<Catalog name="Catalog1" startDate="2004-05-06" endDate="2004-08-06"
variantUID="Variantcode" productUID="ProductCode"
DateChanged="2004-05-06T11:49:54" DefaultLanguage="en-US"
ReportingLanguage="en-US" IsVisible="1" imagefile="c:\myfile.xml"
languages="en-US">

I am not sure if Bizdesk allows you to display and edit user defined
catalog attributes.


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Thanks for your response.
Unfortunately, my live environment (out of my control) is not using
the feature pack, so I need to do without it.

I'm still having difficulties.

I can add an attribute using the CatalogManager and see this in the
exported XML in the <CatalogSchema> node. What I need though is a new
property showing up as <Catalog name="***" newproperty="yyy"
startdate= etc... > for each <catalog> node

Maybe I am using incorrect terminology for property and attribute so
just to clarify:

I want to hold an image for each catalog so that I can generate a
landing page that lists catalog names alongside a relevant image. I
also want to hold a couple of pieces of data like a "hidden" flag for
each catalog.

I also need to be able to update the image filename from BizDesk.

Thanks very much for your help,
Andy

Thanks
Vinayak Tadas
Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/vinayakt

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azbij

Thanks a lot.

Managed to add properties now, and yes, they are displayed and
editable in BizDesk.

string dbconStr =(string)CommerceContext.Current.Resources["Product
Catalog"]["connstr_db_Catalog"];
ICatalogManager3 catMgr = new CatalogManagerClass();
catMgr.Initialize(dbconStr, true, null);
catMgr.AddCatalogAttribute("Hidden",CatalogDataTyp eEnum.cscString,5);


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