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getPropertyInfoForCategory

The following parameters apply to the getPropertyInfoForCategory method:

Parameter

Type

Description

SID

Integer

Identifies the session retrieved from logging in.

categoryHandle

String

Identifies a category handle.

attributes

String[]

Identifies the names of one or more attributes from the property template object for which to fetch values. If this is empty, all value-based attributes are fetched.

Description

Information about Properties for the specified category. This method is used to help pre-populate Request/Issue/Change Order properties on insert operations with user-defined data.

Depending on the category, this method queries either the ‘prptpl’ or the ‘cr_prptpl’ object types. Both types are nearly identical. The suggested attributes to fetch are ‘sequence’, ‘label’, ‘description’ and ‘required’.

Returns

A <UDSObject> element containing a sequence of <UDSObject> elements, in the order of the ‘sequence’ attribute.