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Chapter 5 - Collection Manager / Collection Manager Reference

Functions / Getting Information About Collection Tags

CountCollectionTags

You use the CountCollectionTags function to determine the number of distinct collection tags contained by the items of a specified collection.

long CountCollectionTags(Collection source);

source

A reference to the collection object whose collection tags you want to count.

function result

The number of distinct collection tags contained by the items of the source collection.

DESCRIPTION

The CountCollectionTags function returns as its function result the number of distinct collection tags contained by the items of the collection referenced by the source parameter.

SEE ALSO

For information about collection tags, see "Collection Items" beginning on page 5-8. For information about data types related to collection tags, see the section "Collection Tags" on page 5-49.

For an example of this function, see "Examining the Collection Tags of a Collection" beginning on page 5-35.