Best future proof method for querying products by custom field?

Adrian Ursu

Posted on 24/06/2022 12:51:36

Hi guys,

I need to build some code that is supposed to enrich some products based on data from external sources.

I am basically building an Add-in that should loop over a list of products and adjust ProductCategoryField values based on some external data.

There's been a lot of changes lately in how interaction with products via API is happening and I want to make sure that whatever code I am building now is going to be future-proof.
Therefore, I would like to find out the best method to identify a product based on a ProductField value and also the best method for adding/editing productCategoryFieldValues.

I am guessing I should use Dynamicweb.Ecommerce.ProductService but there are a lot of methods in there for querying products and some of them are marked as Obsolete.

Can somebody suggest the best approach?

Thank you,
Adrian

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Morten Snedker

Posted on 27/06/2022 18:24:45

Hi Adrian,

Luckily that is quite simple:
The Product object has a SetCategoryValue(string CategoryId, string FieldId, object value) method: https://doc.dynamicweb.com/api/html/1d73e2f0-f3db-07e8-75ac-83efef773c0d.htm

BR
Snedker

Adrian Ursu

Posted on 27/06/2022 22:03:18

Hi Morten,

Thank you very much.

I was confused by the name of the method. I was expecting something like SetCategoryFieldValue :)

Nevertheless, it's pretty straightforward and definitely very useful.

Thank you,
Adrian

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