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For developers: Delete departments

To delete a department, you must perform the following:

  1. Get an instance of the manager.
    Get an instance of the TaxonomyManager object.
  2. Get the specified department.
    Get an instance of the department. For more information, read For developers: Query departments.
  3. Mark the department for deletion.
    To mark the department to be deleted, call the Delete method of the manager and pass the department as an argument.
  4. Save the changes.
    To delete the department, save the changes to the manager.

NOTE: To delete multiple departments, query them and execute the code below for each one of them.

NOTE: If you try to delete a department that has child departments, the child departments will also get deleted.

Use the following code sample:

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