How to get Categories from Tridion using categoriesdata

Question

I was looking for a way that how can I fetch all the categories from Tridion using Categoriesdata. I was trying like below, but its showing error.

CoreServiceSession client = new CoreServiceSession();
SessionAwareCoreServiceClient csClient = client.GetClient();
ReadOptions readoption = new ReadOptions();
CategoriesFilterData filter = new CategoriesFilterData();
XElement xml = csClient.GetSystemWideList(filter);

• Frank van Puffelen: I noticed in this and previous code samples that you create a CoreServiceSession object. Just out of curiosity: what is that class and where does it come from? You don't seem to use it.

Answer 1

You need to use GetListXml instead of GetSystemWideList and specify the publication ID from which you want to retrieve the categories:

CategoriesFilterData filterData = new CategoriesFilterData();
XElement resultXml = client.GetListXml(publicationId, filterData);

GetSystemWideList is usually for retrieving stuff that is system wide and not bound to just 1 publication, like PublicationTargets and MultimediaTypes

You could however also try a Search query, like so:

SearchQueryData filter = new SearchQueryData(); 
filter.ItemTypes = new ItemType[] { ItemType.Category }; 
IdentifiableObjectData[] results = client.GetSearchResults(filter);
foreach (IdentifiableObjectData obj in results)
{
 Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0} - {1}", obj.Title, obj.Id));
}

• SDLBeginner: Thanks Reinder, but what if i need to get all the catagories from tridion not from a specific publication.
• Reinder Wit: Ah, OK. you could try using SearchQueryData and search within tridion.
• Reinder Wit: like so: SearchQueryData filter = new SearchQueryData(); filter.ItemTypes = new ItemType[] { ItemType.Category }; filter.BaseColumns = ListBaseColumns.Extended; IdentifiableObjectData[] results = client.GetSearchResults(filter)