--- id: object/table/5722 type: object title: Table 5722 "Item Category" summary: Table 5722 "Item Category" in Base Application (Microsoft.Inventory.Item). 7 fields, 3 public procedures. Present since at least BC23, still in BC30, changed in BC24, BC26, BC28. tier: official language: en tags: - table - base application versions: introduced: null last_changed: "28" deprecated: null review: state: derived by: null at: null flags: [] generated: at: "2026-10-11T00:31:51.816Z" pipeline: 0.2.0 prompts: {} input_hash: 9ada33ef92cd831c115fdc1eeb2f1818e7bf9d869b48c1c19a27964b8d87d847 evidence: - kind: code url: https://github.com/microsoft/BCApps/blob/ea08af5ef2d6a9b5c5af4a029288abbe2c883220/src/Layers/W1/BaseApp/Inventory/Item/ItemCategory.Table.al title: src/Layers/W1/BaseApp/Inventory/Item/ItemCategory.Table.al (releases/29.x) date: null commit: ea08af5ef2d6a9b5c5af4a029288abbe2c883220 t: null quote: null links: learn: - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/api-reference/v2.0/api/dynamics_itemcategory_create - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/api-reference/v2.0/api/dynamics_itemcategory_delete - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/api-reference/v2.0/api/dynamics_itemcategory_get - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/api-reference/v2.0/api/dynamics_itemcategory_update - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/api-reference/v2.0/resources/dynamics_itemCategory - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/inventory-how-categorize-items objects: [] features: [] topics: - topic/business-central/business-functionality/inventory - topic/business-central/business-functionality/set-up-business-central/set-up-inventory localizations: [] videos: [] posts: [] guidelines: [] object_type: table object_id: 5722 name: Item Category namespace: Microsoft.Inventory.Item app: Base Application extends: null first_version: "23" last_version: "30" present_in: - "23" - "24" - "25" - "26" - "27" - "28" - "29" - "30" changed_in: - "24" - "26" - "28" source_major: "29" obsolete: null countries: [] ms_search_form_ids: [] counts: fields: 7 procedures: 6 events: 0 subscribers: 0 relations: out: 2 referenced_by: 37 pages: 5 extended_by: 1 event_subscribers: 0 calls: 2 called_by: 0 implements: 0 --- # Table 5722 "Item Category" > Table 5722 "Item Category" in Base Application (Microsoft.Inventory.Item). 7 fields, 3 public procedures. Present since at least BC23, still in BC30, changed in BC24, BC26, BC28. Base Application · Microsoft.Inventory.Item · BC23-30 · [source at ea08af5e](https://github.com/microsoft/BCApps/blob/ea08af5ef2d6a9b5c5af4a029288abbe2c883220/src/Layers/W1/BaseApp/Inventory/Item/ItemCategory.Table.al) · facts from BC29 Learn documents this table through its pages: [Page 30025 "APIV2 - Item Categories"](../page/30025.md) (5 Learn pages), [Page 5730 "Item Categories"](../page/5730.md) (1), [Page 5733 "Item Category Card"](../page/5733.md) (1). ## Properties | Property | Value | |---|---| | Caption | Item Category | | DataClassification | CustomerContent | ## Fields Explanation: the field's ToolTip in the code; without one, the ToolTip of a page control bound to the field (marked via the page); without that, its Caption (marked caption) when that differs from the name. | No. | Name | Type | Explanation | Notes | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | Code | Code[20] | Specifies the item category. | NotBlank | | 2 | Parent Category | Code[20] | Specifies the item category that this item category belongs to. Item attributes that are assigned to a parent item category also apply to the child item category. | TableRelation [Table 5722 "Item Category"](../table/5722.md) (Item Category) | | 3 | Description | Text[100] | Specifies a description of the item category. | | | 9 | Indentation | Integer | — | | | 10 | Presentation Order | Integer | — | | | 11 | Has Children | Boolean | — | | | 12 | Last Modified Date Time | DateTime | — | not editable | ## Keys - Key1: Code (clustered) - Key2: Parent Category - Key3: Presentation Order - Key4: Indentation, Code, Description ## Procedures - `HasChildren(): Boolean` - `GetStyleText(): Text` - `UpdateIndentationTree(Level: Integer)` Plus 3 local procedures. ## Triggers OnDelete, OnInsert, OnModify, OnRename ## Relations - lookup page [Page 5730 "Item Categories"](../page/5730.md) - Parent Category: TableRelation [Table 5722 "Item Category"](../table/5722.md) ## Referenced by 37 fields in 36 objects relate to this table (TableRelation or CalcFormula). - [Table 27 "Item"](../table/27.md): Item Category Code, Item Category Id - [Table 111 "Sales Shipment Line"](../table/111.md): Item Category Code - [Table 113 "Sales Invoice Line"](../table/113.md): Item Category Code - [Table 115 "Sales Cr.Memo Line"](../table/115.md): Item Category Code - [Table 121 "Purch. Rcpt. Line"](../table/121.md): Item Category Code - [Table 123 "Purch. Inv. Line"](../table/123.md): Item Category Code - [Table 125 "Purch. Cr. Memo Line"](../table/125.md): Item Category Code - [Table 1382 "Item Templ."](../table/1382.md): Item Category Code - [Table 246 "Requisition Line"](../table/246.md): Item Category Code - [Table 32 "Item Ledger Entry"](../table/32.md): Item Category Code - [Table 37 "Sales Line"](../table/37.md): Item Category Code - [Table 39 "Purchase Line"](../table/39.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5108 "Sales Line Archive"](../table/5108.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5110 "Purchase Line Archive"](../table/5110.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5722 "Item Category"](../table/5722.md): Parent Category - [Table 5741 "Transfer Line"](../table/5741.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5745 "Transfer Shipment Line"](../table/5745.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5747 "Transfer Receipt Line"](../table/5747.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5851 "Invt. Document Line"](../table/5851.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5853 "Invt. Receipt Line"](../table/5853.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5855 "Invt. Shipment Line"](../table/5855.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5857 "Direct Trans. Line"](../table/5857.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5876 "Phys. Invt. Order Line"](../table/5876.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5880 "Pstd. Phys. Invt. Order Line"](../table/5880.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5902 "Service Line"](../table/5902.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5991 "Service Shipment Line"](../table/5991.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5993 "Service Invoice Line"](../table/5993.md): Item Category Code - [Table 5995 "Service Cr.Memo Line"](../table/5995.md): Item Category Code - [Table 6012 "Service Line Archive"](../table/6012.md): Item Category Code - [Table 6651 "Return Shipment Line"](../table/6651.md): Item Category Code - [Table 6661 "Return Receipt Line"](../table/6661.md): Item Category Code - [Table 7416 "Excise Tax Rate"](../table/7416.md): Item Category Code - [Table 753 "Standard Item Journal Line"](../table/753.md): Item Category Code - [Table 83 "Item Journal Line"](../table/83.md): Item Category Code - [Table extension 7413 "Excise Journal Line Ext"](../tableextension/7413.md): Item Category Code - [Table extension 7414 "Excise Taxes Trans. Log Ext"](../tableextension/7414.md): Item Category Code ## Pages and codeunits on this table - [Page 20025 "APIV1 - Item Categories"](../page/20025.md) (source table) - [Page 30025 "APIV2 - Item Categories"](../page/30025.md) (source table) - [Page 36967 "Item Category - PBI API"](../page/36967.md) (source table) - [Page 5730 "Item Categories"](../page/5730.md) (source table) - [Page 5733 "Item Category Card"](../page/5733.md) (source table) ## Extended by - [Table extension 6228 "Sust. Item Category"](../tableextension/6228.md) ## Calls From the extracted call graph of BC29 (graphify-al on the snapshot checkout): calls whose target is known from a declared type or an `Object::"Name"` argument. Interface dispatch and calls through events are not counted, so the list is not complete. - [Codeunit 5722 "Item Category Management"](../codeunit/5722.md) (2 calls: `OnInsert → CalcPresentationOrder`, `OnModify → CalcPresentationOrder`) - [Codeunit 7500 "Item Attribute Management"](../codeunit/7500.md) (1 call: `UpdateDeletedCategoryItems → DeleteItemAttributeValueMapping`) ## Across versions - Present in: BC23-30 - Changed (declaration) in: BC24, BC26, BC28 Source: AL metadata extracted from the code (names, ids, signatures, properties); no code bodies (D10). ## Ask your agent Procedure bodies are not stored here (D10). The call sections above are our own, per object, from the BC29 call graph. For a procedure body or the calls of one procedure, ask bc-code-atlas (external, by Stefan Maron, MIT; default corpus w1-28), which the bc-observatory plugin connects: `bcatlas_resolve_node(object_type: "table", object_name: "Item Category")`, then `bcatlas_get_procedure_body` or `bcatlas_get_neighbors` on the returned id.