ProductCatalog.CreateCategory
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Use this method to create a new category.
Definition
Function CreateCategory(strDefinitioName As String,strCategoryName As String,Optional strParentCategoryName As Variant,Optional fIsSpecificationSearchable As Variant) As Category
Parameters
strDefinitioName
A String that contains the name of the category definition on which the category is based.
strCategoryName
A String that contains the name of the category to be created.
strParentCategoryName
A Variant that contains the name of the category that will be a parent to this new category, if any.
fIsSpecificationSearchable
A Variant that determines whether or not this category is to be specification searchable.
Return Values
If this method completes successfully, it returns the newly created Category object.
Error Values
This method sets the Number property of the global Err object to S_OK (&H00000000) to indicate success and to either standard or custom COM 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_CATEGORY_DOESNT_EXIST | &H8898001C | The specified parent category did not exist. |
| E_CAT_CATEGORY_EXISTS | &H8898001D | The specified name for the new category was already in use.
Category names must be globally unique across the entire system. |
| E_CAT_DEFINITION_DOESNT_EXIST | &H8898000B | The specified definition did not exist. |
| E_CAT_INVALID_CATEG_LENGTH | &H88980047 | The category name exceeded 128 characters. |
| E_CAT_PRODUCT_DEFN_FOR_CATEGORY | &H8898004B | The definition specified was not a category definition but a product definition. |
Additional information may be available using the global Err object. In particular, the Description property may contain a text description of the error.
Remarks
For more information about memory ownership issues related to COM property and method parameters, see Managing COM Parameter Memory.
Example
SET oMyCategory = myProductCatalog.CreateCategory("BasicCategoryDefinition", "T-Shirts", "Apparel", TRUE)