CatalogManager.GetDefinitionProperties
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Use this method to return the properties of the specified catalog or product definition.
Definition
Function GetDefinitionProperties(strDefinitionName As String) As _Recordset
Parameters
strDefinitionName
A String that contains the name of the definition whose properties will be returned.
Return Values
If this method completes successfully, it returns a Recordset that contains the properties of the specified definition.
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_DEFINITION_DOESNT_EXIST | &H8898000B | The specified definition did not exist. |
Additional information may be available using the global Err object. In particular, the Description property may contain a text description of the error.
Remarks
The recordset returned by this method contains valid data only if the method completes successfully.
The returned recordset contains the following fields:
| Field | Data Type | Description |
| DefinitionID | Integer | The number that uniquely identifies the definition. |
| PropertyName | String, 256 Characters | None |
| PropertyOrder | Integer | None |
| PropertyType | Integer | Zero (0) indicates product or category, one (1) indicates product variant. |
| TimeStamp | timestamp | None |
The rows of the recordset are sorted on the PropertyOrder field.
For more information about memory ownership issues related to COM property and method parameters, see Managing COM Parameter Memory.
Example
Set rsDefProps = myCatalogManager.GetDefinitionProperties("T-Shirts")
See Also
CatalogManager.AddDefinitionProperty
CatalogManager.AddDefinitionVariantProperty