Oracle ATG Web Commerce - Catalog Properties

Catalog Properties

Catalogs allow you to create complicated product structures that are specifically tailored to different users. They form the base of the hierarchy used for navigating your commerce site. Catalogs can contain catalogs and categories.

The following table describes the catalog properties. It uses these abbreviations:

CCS—CatalogCompletionService (see Using the Catalog Maintenance System in this guide)
CMS—CatalogMaintenanceService (see Using the Catalog Maintenance System in this guide)
GSA—Generic SQL Adapter (see the ATG Repository Guide)

ACC—ATG Control Center (see the ATG Commerce Guide to Setting Up a Store)

Property	How it is set	Description
`allRootCategories`	CCS	Lists of all the root categories in the catalog, including the `allRootCategories` in the `rootSubCatalogs`. This is used for display purposes.
`allRootCategoryIds`	Implicitly set by the CCS	List of the repository IDs of all root categories for the catalog. Read-only. This property refers to the same database table as `allRootCategories`.
`ancestorCategories`	CCS	All categories that are connected to this catalog through its children. This property allows the `CatalogCompletionService` to find all the sub-catalogs of a category that is being added to a catalog or another category. By maintaining this property, the system can query for catalogs that contain the category being added in the `ancestorCategories`, and update those catalogs’ ancestor-catalogs properties accordingly.
`ancestorCatalogsAndSelf`	Derived	The combination of `directAncestorCatalogsAndSelf` and `indirectAncestorCatalogs`.
`creationDate`	Implicitly set by GSA when catalog is created	Date the catalog was created.
`directAncestorCatalogsAndSelf`	CCS	All the catalogs that use this catalog’s `allRootCategories` as their root categories. This property, along with `indirectAncestorCatalogs`, compiles a complete list of all ancestor catalogs within each catalog. The ancestors are divided into direct and indirect lists to make it easier to compute the `allRootCategories` property. A `rootCategory` of a catalog only belongs in the `allRootCategories` list of an ancestor catalog if it is a direct ancestor.
`displayName`	ACC	Name used for the catalog in other Oracle ATG Web Commerce applications. Required.
`id`	Can be set in the ACC	Repository ID for the catalog. If not set, the GSA generates the value.
`indirectAncestorCatalogs`	CCS	All the ancestor catalogs that do not use `allRootCategories` as their root categories. (See `directAncestorCatalogsAndSelf` for further explanation).
`lastModifiedDate`	Implicitly set by GSA when catalog is modified	Date the catalog was last modified.
`parentCategories`	Implicitly through `category.subCatalogs`	The set of categories that have this catalog as a subcatalog. Refers to the `subCatalogs` property of the category, and allows a catalog to find all of its parent categories. Adding a product to another category’s child list automatically updates the `parentCategories` property.
`rootCategoryIds`	Implicitly set in the ACC	Repository IDs of top-level categories in the catalog. Read-only. Refers to the same database table as `rootCategories.`
`rootCategories`	ACC	List of the top-level categories in the catalog.
`rootSubCatalogs`	ACC	List of catalogs whose root categories are also root categories of the catalog (for use in combining catalogs).
`siteIds`	CCS	If you are using Oracle ATG Web Commerce’s multisite feature, the IDs of those sites to which the catalog belongs.
`subCatalogIds`	Optionally implicitly computed by the CCS	Repository IDs of catalogs contained within the catalog, including `rootSubCatalogs` and their `subCatalogs`, and the `subCatalogs` of any categories in the catalog. Read-only. This property refers to the same database table as `subCatalogs`.