Disable Category Inheritance

Is there way to disable category inheritance on a node through CWS or REST?

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Hi Chris,

Unfortunately, CWS does not have any build-in mechanism like LAPI to disable category inheritence, so I had to handle it programmatically.

Ijaz

cluttrell@alitek.com

By handling it programmatically, do you mean that you used LAPI?

Ahmad_Ijaz

Well, in my case, I had to convert my code from LAPI to CWS, so I could not use the builtin function in LAPI to disable category inheritence.

In CWS, I would check if that specific category exist on a target node, I will simply remove it using CWS.

If you can use LAPI, its just one function call!!

//////////////////////// LAPI Code snippet ////////////////////////////

            // Lapi vars
            LAPI_DOCUMENTS doc = new LAPI_DOCUMENTS( sess );
            LLValue objId = new LLValue().setAssocNotSet();
            LLValue catIdList = new LLValue().setNotSet();
            LLValue catDataAssoc = new LLValue().setAssocNotSet();

            // Setup the folder Id input
            objId.setAssoc();
            objId.add( "ID", nodeId );
            objId.add( "Type", LAPI_DOCUMENTS.OBJECTTYPE );

// Retrieve the category list
status = doc.ListObjectCategoryIDs( objId, catIdList );

            // Set the category list for inheritance
            if( status == 0 ) {
                // Got the cat list above
                // Now set the inheritance on the objects
                for( int i = 0; i < catIdList.size(); i++ ) {
                    catDataAssoc = catIdList.toValue( i );
                    if( catDataAssoc.toInteger( "ID" ) == CATFILESTATID ) {
                        catDataAssoc.setBoolean( "Inheritance", false );
                    } else {
                        catDataAssoc.setBoolean( "Inheritance", true );
                    }
                }

                // Finally, update the object
                status = doc.SetObjectCategoryInheritance( objId, catIdList );
            }

cluttrell@alitek.com

Thanks for the information. I decided to write an AutoIt script to uncheck the box using the web user interface.

Ahmad_Ijaz

Do you mind sharing that approach here?

Highly appreciated!

Matthew_Blakley

Hi Chris,

Could you please shrare the AutoIt code for this.

Thanks