addCompany

Adds a company to the system.

Sends the name of the company to be added to the system and optionally sends whether the company expires.

When this operation is invoked, the system gets a *companyInfo* type that contains a company handle and descriptive fields. If the company name requested already exists in the system, it throws an ipsApiFault.

Authorized User Types

IpsAdmin
TrialSiteAdmin
ImagePortalAdmin

Parameters

Input (addCompanyParam)

Name	Type	Required	Description
companyName	xsd:string	Yes	The name of the company to add.
expires	xsd:dateTime	No	The expiration date of the company. Provide the time zone with the request for this field. Time zones are adjusted to Central Time.

Output (addCompanyReturn)

Name	Type	Required	Description
companyInfo	xsd:string	Yes	Handle to and name, root path, expiration date, and time of the new company.

Examples

This example demonstrates a request to add a company to the IPS system and the response detailing the information about the added company that is needed to perform other operations.

Request

<ns1:addCompanyParam xmlns:ns1="http://www.scene7.com/IpsApi/xsd">
   <ns1:companyName>Planetary</ns1:companyName>
</ns1:addCompanyParam>

Response

<ns1:addCompanyReturn xmlns:ns1="http://www.scene7.com/IpsApi/xsd">
   <ns1:companyInfo>
      <ns1:companyHandle>137</ns1:companyHandle>
      <ns1:name>Planetary</ns1:name>
      <ns1:rootPath>Planetary/</ns1:rootPath>
      <ns1:expires>2101-01-31T23:00:00.030Z</ns1:expires>
   </ns1:companyInfo>
</ns1:addCompanyReturn>