ICatalogManager::CreateProductDefinition
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Use this method to create a new product definition.
Definition
HRESULT ICatalogManager::CreateProductDefinition(BSTRstrDefinitionName);
Parameters
strDefinitionName
[in] A BSTR that contains the name of the new product 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 product 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 or AddDefinitionVariantProperty method.
For more information about memory ownership issues related to COM property and method parameters, see Managing COM Parameter Memory.
See Also
ICatalogManager::AddDefinitionProperty
ICatalogManager::AddDefinitionVariantProperty
ICatalogManager::CreateCategoryDefinition