You can increase the size of fields in the Catalogs tool. For example, to use the catalog
search relevancy feature you can increase the size of the Keyword field on
the Catalogs tool Category page.
Procedure
In this example, the default size of the Keyword field is
increased from the default value of 254 to a value of 32500.
Update the CatalogCommonObjectDefinitions.xml file.
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Start HCL Commerce Developer.
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Open the J2EE perspective and select the
Enterprise Explorer view.
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Go to .
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Open the CatalogCommonObjectDefinitions.xml file for
editing.
Locate the following snippet in the
Keyword
section:
<!--- Keyword -->
<PropertyDefinition displayName="${catalogResources.catalogGroupDescriptionKeywords_DisplayName}"
maximumSize="254" propertyName="keyword" type="string"/>
Change the
maximumSize
value:
<!--- Keyword -->
<PropertyDefinition displayName="${catalogResources.catalogGroupDescriptionKeywords_DisplayName}"
maximumSize="32500" propertyName="keyword" type="string"/>
For long description, locate the following snippet in the
CatalogCommonObjectDefinitions.xml file.
<PropertyDefinition displayName="${catalogResources.catalogEntryDescriptionShortDescription_DisplayName}"
maximumSize="254" propertyName="sDesc" type="string"/>
For short description, locate the following snippet in the
CatalogCommonObjectDefinitions.xml
file.
<PropertyDefinition displayName="${catalogResources.catalogEntryDescriptionLongDescription_DisplayName}"
maximumSize="4000" propertyName="lDesc" type="string"/>
Note: The maximumSize
attribute value
for long and short descriptions can be changed to match the desired maximum
size.
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Save your changes and close the file.