Programming Guides › Programming Guide for Perl › CLI Policy Management Methods › Affiliate Object Methods › Description Method—Sets or Retrieves the Description of an Affiliate Object

Description Method—Sets or Retrieves the Description of an Affiliate Object

The Description method sets or retrieves the description of the affiliate object.

Syntax

The Description method has the following format:

Netegrity::PolicyMgtAffiliate‑>Description( [affDesc] )

Parameters

The Description method accepts the following parameter:

affDesc (string)

(Optional) Specifies the description to set.

Return Value

The Description method returns one of the following values:

• The new or existing description of the affiliate object.
• undef if the call was unsuccessful