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Taxonomies

Overview

You work with taxa in a similar way as with content items. You must inherit from the TaxonDto class, which, in turn, inherits from the SdkItem class.

Taxon DTO

The TaxonDto class has the following signature:

For example, a tag taxon, belonging to the Tags taxonomy, is defined in the following way:

The TagDto class is defined in the following way:

The RestClientContentTypes.Tags constant holds the value of "Taxonomy_Tags".

Custom taxonomies

For custom taxonomies, the constant is defined like
"Taxonomy_{TaxonomyDeveloperName}"

EXAMPLE: If you have a static model defined for a custom taxonomy with the developer name geographical-regions, then the class will be defined in the following way:

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