categoryInfo objects are no longer required for custom catalogs. categoryInfo objects were required in custom catalogs before ATG Commerce 6.1. All relevant information for a category is kept in the category item. You can create categoryInfo objects through the ACC if you wish to keep catalog-specific information for a category.

Property

How it is set

Description

ancestorCategories

Categories that are higher in the catalog hierarchy than this category. Updated nightly to speed searching.

By default, this information is no longer stored in categoryInfo item – now in the ancestorCategories property of category item.

ancestorCategoryIds

RepositoryIDs of the ancestor categories. Read-only.

By default, this information is no longer stored in categoryInfo item – now in the ancestorCategoryId property of category item.

version

Implicitly set by GSA

Integer that is incremented automatically each time the categoryInfo is updated; used to prevent version conflict.

 
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