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ICatalogManager::CreateCategoryDefinition

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Use this method to create a new category definition.

Definition

HRESULT ICatalogManager::CreateCategoryDefinition(BSTRstrDefinitionName);

Parameters

strDefinitionName

[in] A BSTR that contains the name of the new category definition.

Return Values

This method returns an HRESULT indicating whether it completed successfully. See the Error Values section for more details.

Error Values

This method returns S_OK (0x00000000) to indicate success and either standard or custom COM HRESULT error values to indicate failure. For more information about standard COM errors, see Standard COM Errors.

The following table shows the custom COM errors that this method can return.

Constant Value Description
E_CAT_DEFINITION_EXISTS 0x8898000A The specified category definition name already existed.

Additional information may be available using the global Err object, which can be accessed using the API function GetErrorInfo. In particular, the GetDescription method of the IErrorInfo interface may return a text description of the error.

Remarks

Category and product definition names must be globally unique across the entire Product Catalog System. It is not possible to have a category definition and a product definition with the same name.

The initial definition is empty when it is created. To add individual properties to the definition, use the AddDefinitionProperty method.

For more information about memory ownership issues related to COM property and method parameters, see Managing COM Parameter Memory.

See Also

CatalogManager Object

ICatalogManager::AddDefinitionProperty

ICatalogManager::CreateProductDefinition

ICatalogManager::DeleteDefinition


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