generation.md

title	manager	ms.date	ms.audience	ms.topic	ms.service	ms.technology	ms.localizationpriority	api_name	api_type	ms.assetid	description
Generation	sethgros	09/17/2015	Developer	reference	office-online-server	ews	medium	Generation	schema	a4812843-8aec-4fc4-945f-3aeb17a6593a	The Generation element represents a generational abbreviation that follows the full name of a contact.

Generation

The Generation element represents a generational abbreviation that follows the full name of a contact.

<Generation/>

String

Attributes and elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child elements

None.

Parent elements

Element	Description
Contact	Represents an Exchange contact item.

Text value

A text value is required if this element is used.

Remarks

This element represents the same information that is represented by the PR_Generation MAPI property.

The schema that describes this element is located in the EWS virtual directory of the computer that is running MicrosoftExchange Server 2007 that has the Client Access server role installed.

Element information

Name	Value
Namespace	http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types
Schema name	Types schema
Validation file	Types.xsd
Can be empty	False

See also

• EWS XML elements in Exchange

Creating Contacts (Exchange Web Services)

Updating Contacts

Deleting Contacts