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Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
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Posted on 23/06/2025 09:44:05

Hi Guys,

I have a project running on DW 9.14.
One of the requests is to expose AssetCategories in the PIM feed for both main products and Variants.
From what I see, no matter what I include in the fields, for Variants, I can only get the Image but not the asset categories.

Is there any Service that I can use to retrieve Asset categories based on ProductId and VariantId? Or any other method for that Matter? I know I can create a ProductViewModel based on the Variant information, but I am worried about the performance since the list is rather large.
Thank you,

Adrian


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Nicolai Pedersen Dynamicweb Employee
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 23/06/2025 10:05:48
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You have 2 options

You can get the categories from DetailGroupService and the assets from DetailService.GetDetails(). Problem is that it will probably give you too many DB calls as these services hides their bulk retrieval methods.

An alternative is to use Dynamicweb.Ecommerce.ProductCatalog.ViewModelFactory.CreateView(ProductListViewModelSettings settings, IEnumerable<long> productAutoIds) or CreateView(ProductViewModelSettings settings, IEnumerable<ProductInfoViewModel> productInfo) - they will return you a pageable list of products and will optimize the queries for the details.

I do not know how many products you are returning - so becareful on performance.

BR Nicolai

 

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