IProductCatalog::CreateCategory
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Use this method to create a new category.
Definition
HRESULT IProductCatalog::CreateCategory(BSTRstrDefinitioName,BSTRstrCategoryName,VARIANTstrParentCategoryName,VARIANTfIsSpecificationSearchable,ICategory**ppCategory);
Parameters
strDefinitioName
[in] A BSTR that contains the name of the category definition on which the category is based.
strCategoryName
[in] A BSTR that contains the name of the category to be created.
strParentCategoryName
[in, optional] A VARIANT that contains the name of the category that will be a parent to this new category, if any.
IsSpecificationSearchable
[in, optional] A VARIANT that determines whether or not this category is to be specification searchable.
ppCategory
[out, retval] A pointer to an ICategory object used to return the newly created category.
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_CATEGORY_DOESNT_EXIST | 0x8898001C | The specified parent category did not exist. |
| E_CAT_CATEGORY_EXISTS | 0x8898001D | 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 | 0x8898000B | The specified definition did not exist. |
| E_CAT_INVALID_CATEG_LENGTH | 0x88980047 | The category name exceeded 128 characters. |
| E_CAT_PRODUCT_DEFN_FOR_CATEGORY | 0x8898004B | The definition specified was not a category definition but a product definition. |
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
The ppCategory parameter contains valid data only if the property was accessed successfully.
For more information about memory ownership issues related to COM property and method parameters, see Managing COM Parameter Memory.