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Commerce Foundation Property Metadata

A Property commerce entity type has properties that represent metadata relevant to each property of each relevant commerce entity type. A Microsoft Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation query operation could return the specific metadata for a specific Commerce Entity type. An application design tool (such as a web part edit pane) could use this metadata to populate a list of properties for a specified item type. The data structure's underlying property metadata may also contain information utilized by the Commerce Server 2009 Broker.

Properties

The properties of the Property Commerce Entity type are:

Property

Description

Type

The model name of the commerce entity type associated with this metadata.

Property

The name of the property associated with this metadata.

Groups

A Commerce Server Core Systems catalog has multiple product types, with each type associated with a subset of the properties defined for the catalog.

DisplayName

The name of the commerce entity property that is meaningful to a page designer.

Description

A description of the metadata that is meaningful to a page designer. Ideally a multilingual description can be used.

DataType

The Data Types supported by Commerce Server 2009.

Validation

Commerce Server 2009 (or Commerce Server Core Systems) enforces these validation rules that specify allowable property values. Commerce Server Core Systems supports maximum string length, minimum and maximum integer value.

Format

Default display format. This output formatting should not be confused with conversions performed according to regional settings. A use case might be “display only a specified number of significant digits”.

Choices

A list of acceptable input values delimited by a separator character. An enumerated value might be displayed as a drop list.

ProviderID

The name of the provider that retrieves data for this commerce entity property.

CSProperty

The name of the Commerce Server Core Systems object model property that accesses data for this commerce entity.

CSClass

The name of the Commerce Server Core Systems object model class that accesses data for this commerce entity.

Data Types

The Microsoft Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation Data Types of the Property Commerce Entity type are:

Display Type

Commerce Foundation Type

Binary

Byte array

Boolean

Boolean

Choice list (multilingual?)

Integer

Currency

Decimal

String (with max length?)

String

Password

String

Image

A string containing a file path or URL

Multivalued string

A string with separator character

Multilingual string (or rely on multilingual rich text?)

String

Rich text (XHTML) (multilingual)

String

Date

DateTime

Date-no-year

DateTime

Date-time

DateTime

Time

DateTime

Email

String (Implies specific input validation)

Float (with precision?)

Double

URL

String (Implies specific input validation)

Unique identifier

GUID

Integer

Integer

A single Commerce Entity

Relationship

A collection of Commerce Entities

RelationshipList

See Also

Other Resources

Working with Metadata in Commerce Foundation

Commerce Foundation Metadata

Commerce Foundation Metadata Repository Design

Commerce Foundation Metadata Flow Through Rules

Commerce Foundation Metadata API Reference

Managing and Manipulating Metadata in Commerce Foundation