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Product3.AddRelationshipToCategory Method (PIA)

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Use this method to add a relationship to a specified category in the specified catalog from this product.

Definition

[Visual Basic .NET]

Imports Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Catalog
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Public Sub AddRelationshipToCategory(strRelatedCategoryName As String,
  strRelationshipName As String,
  Optional strRelationshipDescription As Object,strTargetCatalogNameStack As String)

[C#]

using Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Catalog;
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public void AddRelationshipToCategory(stringstrRelatedCategoryName,
  stringstrRelationshipName,
  objectstrRelationshipDescription,stringstrTargetCatalogNameStack);

Parameters

[Visual Basic .NET]

  • strRelatedCategoryName
    A String that contains the name of the category to which a relationship is to be added.
  • strRelationshipName
    A String that contains a name for the relationship.
  • strRelationshipDescription
    An Object that optionally contains a description for the relationship.
  • strTargetCatalogNameStack
    A String that contains the name of the catalog that contains the category specified in strRelatedCategoryName.

[C#]

  • strRelatedCategoryName
    A string that contains the name of the category to which a relationship is to be added.
  • strRelationshipName
    A string that contains a name for the relationship.
  • strRelationshipDescription
    An object that optionally contains a description for the relationship. Set to Type.Missing to omit a description.
  • strTargetCatalogNameStack
    A string that contains the name of the catalog that contains the category specified in strRelatedCategoryName.

Exceptions

This method may throw one of many mapped exceptions or an exception of type COMException. See Standard COM Errors for additional details.

The following table shows the custom COM errors that a COMException can wrap.

Constant Value Description
E_CAT_CATALOG_DOESNT_EXIST

[C#] 0x88980002

[Visual Basic .NET] &H88980002

 The catalog name you specified does not exist.
E_CAT_INVALID_CATALOGNAME

[C#] 0x88980063

[Visual Basic .NET] &H88980063

 The catalog name you specified is invalid. Catalog names cannot be blank.
E_CAT_INVALID_CATALOG_NAME_LENGTH

[C#] 0x88980042

[Visual Basic .NET] &H88980042

 The catalog name you specified exceeds the maximum limit of 85 characters.
E_CAT_CHARACTER_NOT_ALLOWED

[C#] 0x8898003D

[Visual Basic .NET] &H8898003D

 The catalog name you specified has one of the nine reserved characters " [ ] , ' ( )#. that should not be used.
E_CAT_INVALID_CATEG_LENGTH

[C#] 0x88980047

[Visual Basic .NET] &H88980047

 The category name you specified is either blank or exceeds the maximum allowed length of 128 characters or cannot be converted to a string.
E_CAT_VC_INVALID_PROD_ID_OR_CATEGORY_NAME

[C#] 0x889800FB

[Visual Basic .NET] &H889800FB

 The value you specified for the productID or CategoryName exceeds the maximum allowed length of 348 characters.
E_CAT_INVALID_RELATION_NAME

[C#] 0x88980054

[Visual Basic .NET] &H88980054

 The value you specified for the relationship name is blank or exceeds 128 characters. Relationship names should not be blank and should be less than or equal to 128 characters.
E_CAT_INVALID_PARAMETER

[C#] 0x889800B6

[Visual Basic .NET] &H889800B6

 The input parameter <parameter number> is invalid.
E_CAT_INVALID_RELATION_DESC

[C#] 0x88980055

[Visual Basic .NET] &H88980055

 The value you specified for the relationship description exceeds 256 characters. Relationship description should be less than or equal to 256 characters.
E_CAT_CATALOG_DOESNT_EXIST

[C#] 0x88980002

[Visual Basic .NET] &H88980002

 The catalog name you specified does not exist.
E_CAT_CATEGORY_DOESNT_EXIST

[C#] 0x8898001C

[Visual Basic .NET] &H8898001C

 The category you specified does not exist.
E_CAT_INVALID_RELATION

[C#] 0x88980039

[Visual Basic .NET] &H88980039

 An invalid relation is specified. Self relations are not supported.
E_CAT_VC_CANT_EDIT_INCLUDED_RELATIONSHIP

[C#] 0x8898011B

[Visual Basic .NET] &H8898011B

 A virtual catalog's included relationships cannot be directly edited. They can only be edited in the base catalog context.
E_CAT_VC_ERROR_IN_PROPAGATING_BC_CHANGES

[C#] 0x88980101

[Visual Basic .NET] &H88980101

 There was an error in propagating the base catalog changes to the dependent virtual catalogs.

Remarks

The new relationship must have a name, which you specify in the strRelationshipName parameter. It may also optionally have a description, which you can specify in the strRelationshipDescription parameter.

More than one relationship may be created between the same product and category, however in this case each relationship created must be given a unique name.

[Visual Basic .NET]

Example

'vDesc is an Object of subtype String containing the description.
myProduct.AddRelationshipToCategory ("Apparel", "Accessory", vDesc)

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Catalog

Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003

Assembly: Cataloglib (in Cataloglib.dll)

See Also

Product3 Class

Product3.AddRelationshipToProduct

Product3.RemoveRelationshipToCategory

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