Adding Categories for an Asset

G-Reg Publisher supports enabling first level of categorization for asset types that are stored in it. Once you define the categories within any <table> element in the RXT of an asset type, you can select the category of the asset, when creating it. For an example, you can enable categorization by adding a new field to a new Information table of SOAP Services as explained below. 

1. Log in to the WSO2 G-Reg Management Console using the following URL and admin/admin credentials: https://<G-REG_HOST>:<G-REG_PORT>/carbon/
2. Click Extensions, and then click Artifact Types in the Configure menu.
3. Click the corresponding View/Edit link of the artifact type, in which you want to enable categorization a shown below.
   

4. Add the following configuration to add an option field with the name Category to a new Information table of the rest service RXT using the provided Editor as shown below. 

   <table name="Information">
       <field type="options">
           <name label="Category">Cat</name>
           <values>
               <value>None</value>
               <value>Engineering</value>
               <value>Finance</value>
               <value>HR</value>
               <value>Sales</value>
               <value>Marketing</value>
           </values>
       </field>
   </table>

   You can enable categorization by adding an option field to any of the existing tables in the RXT of a particular type (e.g. Overview).

5. Click Save, and then click Ok in the message which pops-up as shown below.
   

6. Add a new categoryField within the categories element under the asset.configure function, in the <G-REG_HOME>/repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/store/extensions/assets/default/asset.js file as follows.

   Add the value of the categoryField property in the following format: <TABLE_NAME>_<FIELD-NAME>. You can pick the <TABLE_NAME> from the RXT of the particular asset type, and the <FIELD-NAME> from the configuration you added to the RXT.

   categories: {
   categoryField: 'overview_category',
       categoryField: 'information_cat'
   },

7. Restart the WSO2 G-Reg server.

You view the new field you added to enable categorization when creating a SOAP Service using the G-Reg Publisher as shown below.

You can use categorization to search for a SOAP Service in the G-Reg Publisher by its category as shown below.

Also, you can use categorization to search for a SOAP Service in the G-Reg Store by its category as shown below.