How to fecth attributes of a category and set the values

Vrushu

Hi All,

In my webService am trying to fetch the attributes of category and set values to them.

Below is my code to fetch the attributes

AttributeGroup attrGrp = docManClient.getCategoryTemplate(categoryID);
    AttributeGroupDefinition  attriDef = docManClient.getAttributeGroupDefinition(attrGrp.getType(), attrGrp.getKey());
    List<Attribute> attr = attriDef.getAttributes();

//Prints all the attributes
    for(Attribute res : attr){
     System.out.println("Attribute getDisplayName" + res.getDisplayName());
          
    }

But i dont see any method to set value the attribute , please guide me .

THanks In advance

Kevin_Mark

Hi, right after you get attrGrp (from calling GetCategoryTemplate()), you can set the values inside of attrGrp directly.  For example, if your category has a text field and an integer field as its only attributes:

 

AttributeGroup attrGrp = documentManagementService.GetCategoryTemplate(categoryID);

// update the text field attribute

// Modifying TextField will modify attrGrp
StringValue TextField = attrGrp.Values[0] as StringValue;
TextField.Values = new string[1];
TextField.Values[0] = "bbb";
 
// update the integer field attribute

// Modifying IntField will modify attrGrp
IntegerValue IntField = attrGrp.Values[1] as IntegerValue;
IntField.Values = new long?[1];

IntField.Values[0] = 1234;

 

// wrap the category template and its new values in a Metadata object

Metadata m = new Metadata();

m.AttributeGroups = new AttributeGroup[] { attrGrp };

 

// You can use SetNodeMetadata
//
DocManServiceInstance.SetNodeMetadata(ref fOTAuth, nodeID, m);
 
// Or you can use UpdateNode (assume 'folder' is the node you're changing the category on)
//
//folder.Metadata = m;
//DocManServiceInstance.UpdateNode(ref fOTAuth, folder);