getting category for product

[RickSilver]

Given that I have an object of type Product, how can I get the category id so I can load a Category object. Basically, I'm just trying to get the Visibility of the category the product belongs in.

Rick

[mazhar]

Product object has one property called Categories of type integer list. This property provides you the ids of categories to which product belongs.

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foreach (int categoryId in product.Categories)
        { 
            //USE categoryId here
        }

[RickSilver]

I am getting a Public value for a category that is hidden or private. Am i doing something wrong here?

foreach (int categoryId in product.Categories) {
Category _Category = CategoryDataSource.Load(categoryId);

if (_Category.Visibility.ToString() == "Public" ) {
// always true
}
}

[mazhar]

Do it like this

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foreach (int categoryId in product.Categories)
        {
            Category category = CategoryDataSource.Load(categoryId);

            if (category.Visibility == CatalogVisibility.Public)
            {
                // always true
            }
        }

[RickSilver]

It is still coming back as TRUE regardless of the category visibility status as set in Admin.

Rick

[plugables]

It is still coming back as TRUE regardless of the category visibility status as set in Admin.

Make sure the product is not in more than one categories.