Find category by it's display name

Petr_Jezek

Hi,

I'm working on an application to update metadata of documents stored at CS through the EWS CS API. I'm now trying to find out how to correctly set the value of attribute A of a category C to V. Node that I would like to address the category by it's display name, not it's id. The category has already been defined at CS through the administration menu.

The following code snippet correctly locates the category, but has the above mentioned drawback that it requires the user to know it's id.

AttributeGroup group = docManagement.getCategoryTemplate(categoryId);
AttributeGroupDefinition groupDef = docManagement.getCategoryDefinition(categoryId);

The following code snippet works as expected, but I am afraid that this is true by accident (i.e. only because the category is defined as a node located directly in the CategoriesWS root node, which might not always be true).

Node rootNode = docManagement.getRootNode("CategoriesWS");
 Node categoryNode = docManagement.getNodeByName(rootNode.getID(), categoryName);

AttributeGroup group = docManagement.getCategoryTemplate(categoryNode.getID());
AttributeGroupDefinition groupDef = docManagement.getCategoryDefinition(categoryNode.getID());

So, what is the correct way to find a category by it's display name through the EWS CS API?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Appu_Nair1

Typed my reply lost it

Category unique subtype of 131 most people create cats in category volume  again a volume is characterized by a parentid of -1 and a ownerid of negative dtree dataid.So all items in the CATWS is

select * from dtree where subtype=131 and ownerid=<-dataid of the category workspace> and name like 'the cat you want'  many people incorrectly think the hard code of 2004 can be put in code.I would not do it as my category volume is not 2004.

Volumes are logical separations of parts of dtree so livelink uses volumes for almost everything

CWS can execute LR I tried it it kinda worked for me.

Recently my good friend Pramod Mohandas of cognizant posted a 'ChunkedOperation' which is a crawler.It looked awesome

Maybe search with the object subtype of 131