CollectionDef Flags Property

The CollectionDef object exposes two separate Flags properties. One of these properties is exposed by the default interface, and the other is exposed by the IInterfaceMember interface. They are both described here.

The default Flags property determines:

Whether or not the collection type permits the naming of destination objects, and if so, whether those names are case-sensitive, and required to be unique.
Whether or not the collection type permits the explicit sequencing of items in the collection.
What happens to related objects when objects or relationships in the collection are deleted.
Whether or not origin collections of this type are automatically copied to new object versions by the CreateVersion method.
Whether the MergeVersion method combines origin collections of this type as a whole, or item by item.
Whether the FreezeVersion method requires that destination object versions of relationships of this type be frozen before the attendant origin object versions can be frozen.

See the CollectionDefFlags Enumeration for a list of values and their specific purposes.

The IInterfaceDef Flags property is a flag that specifies whether or not the interface member should be visible to Automation queries. (See the InterfaceMemberFlags Enumeration for a list of values and their specific purposes.)

Syntax

object.Flags

The Flags property syntax has the following parts.

Part

Description

object

An object expression that evaluates to a CollectionDef object, for the default Flags property

-or-

An object expression that evaluates to an object that exposes IInterfaceMember as the default interface, for the alternate Flags property.

Remarks

For details on how to access a member of an interface that is not the default interface, see Accessing Automation Object Members