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Member	hemanthray-gmail - 6/10/2013 11:35:22 AM How to programatically create Categories Do we have to just update the CMS_category table to add new categories ? Or is there any way we could add categories via API into kentico ?

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Brenden Kehren - 6/10/2013 12:16:03 PM

RE:How to programatically create Categories

In the API Documentation it shows there is a CategoryInfoProvider class which would allow you to create a new CategoryInfo() object. I'd assume the code would look something like this:

CategoryInfo ci = new CategoryInfo();
ci.CategoryName = "Cat 1";
ci.CategoryDisplayName = "Category 1";

CategoryInfoProvider.SetCategoryInfo(ci);

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kentico_martind2 - 6/11/2013 3:45:08 AM

RE:How to programatically create Categories

Hello,

I would also recommend you to take a look at the CMS API Examples (CMSSiteManager -> Support -> Api Examples -> Documents -> Categories) where you can find also the example code to create a categori:

private bool CreateCategory()
{
    // Create new category object
    CategoryInfo newCategory = new CategoryInfo();

    // Set the properties
    newCategory.CategoryDisplayName = "My new category";
    newCategory.CategoryName = "MyNewCategory";
    newCategory.CategoryDescription = "My new category description";
    newCategory.CategorySiteID = CMSContext.CurrentSiteID;
    newCategory.CategoryCount = 0;
    newCategory.CategoryEnabled = true;

    // Save the category
    CategoryInfoProvider.SetCategoryInfo(newCategory);

    return true;
}

Brandon's example is exactly the same just a little bit simplified.

Best regards,
Martin Danko

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