[#BloombergLP-balm-MetricsManager-addGeneralPublisher]
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Add a publisher used for every category published by this manager.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balm_metricsmanager.h>`

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int
addGeneralPublisher(xref:bsl/shared_ptr-0a.adoc[bsl::shared_ptr<Publisher>] const& publisher);
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== Description

Add the specified `publisher` to the set of publishers that will be used to propagate records for _every_ category published by this metrics manager. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value with no effect if `publisher` has already been registered. After this method returns, _any_ category published by this metrics manager will be published to `publisher`. Note that this method will have no effect and return a non‐zero value if `publisher` was previously registered for one or more specific categories (using the alternative `addSpecificPublisher` method).

== Return Value

0 on success, and a non‐zero value with no effect if `publisher` has already been registered

== Parameters

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|===
| Name| Description
| *publisher*
| publisher to register for every category
|===


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