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A property describes a characteristic of a product or category, such as Name, Title, Color, and so on. A property can be used by multiple product definitions and category definitions and can be shared across catalogs. When you create a property, the property is added to the Commerce Server database schema. For more information about properties, see What is a Property Definition?
To create a property
- Create the properties needed in your catalog by using the CreateProperty method of the CatalogContext object.
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Do not use the following characters in the property name: .,/"[]'. |
Example
This example creates properties for a product in a catalog of CDs. It creates the properties Title, Runtime, Artist, and Label. It adds these properties to a product definition and saves the definition.
public static void CreateProperties(CatalogContext context)
{
// Create the properties for a CD in a catalog.
CatalogProperty title = context.CreateProperty("Title", CatalogDataType.String, 250);
CatalogProperty runtime = context.CreateProperty("RunTime", CatalogDataType.Integer, 0);
CatalogProperty artist = context.CreateProperty("Artist", CatalogDataType.String, 500);
CatalogProperty label = context.CreateProperty("Label", CatalogDataType.String, 25);
// Create a product definition.
CatalogDefinition productDefinition = context.CreateDefinition("CD", CatalogDefinitionType.ProductDefinition);
// Add the properties to the product definition and save the definition.
productDefinition.AddProperty(title.Name, DefinitionPropertyType.NormalProperty);
productDefinition.AddProperty(artist.Name, DefinitionPropertyType.NormalProperty);
productDefinition.AddProperty(label.Name, DefinitionPropertyType.NormalProperty);
productDefinition.AddProperty(runtime.Name, DefinitionPropertyType.NormalProperty);
productDefinition.Save();
}