InstalledProductCategoryUdfAssociation

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This entity represents the relationship between an asset category and a specific UDF. One of these entities exists for every UDF that is set as visible on each asset category.

Entity details

You can also retrieve this information with the Web Services API call The getEntityInfo() SOAP API call.

Entity Name: InstalledProductCategoryUdfAssociation
Can Create:
Can Update:
Can Query:
Can Delete:
Can Have UDFs:  

Conditions and requirements

General

  • This entity does not control the sort order of its UDF.

  • Query will return only InstalledProductCategory/UDF associations that are visible (not hidden).

  • When an InstalledProductCategoryUdfAssociation is created via the API, the UDF it represents will be placed as the last field in the last section of the asset category's field layout.

Special field attributes

Field Conditions and Requirements
id During create(), a value is required for this field. It cannot be left blank or equal 0. You must instead supply the id of an existing InstalledProductCategory which will be copied to create this new InstalledProductCategory.

Field definitions

The following table describes the standard Autotask field objects for this entity.

  • To retrieve more detailed information specific to a particular Autotask implementation, use the Web Services API call The getFieldInfo() SOAP API call.
  • For information on entity UDFs, use getUDFInfo().
  • For String datatypes, the number in parentheses ( ) indicates the maximum number of characters allowed.
  • LT indicates Local Term.

For more information about fields marked as picklists, review our Understanding picklists article.

Field Name Label Datatype Read Only Is Required Reference Name Picklist
id Asset Category Udf Association ID long    
InstalledProductCategoryID Asset Category ID integer InstalledProductCategory  
IsRequired Is Required boolean      
UserDefinedFieldDefinitionID User Defined Field Definition ID integer UserDefinedFieldDefinition