An event that is triggered when a category is created.
The onCategoryCreated()
event handler runs when a category is created. The received CategoryCreated
object contains information about the category that was created.
Note: Backend events don't work when previewing your site.
function wixBlog_onCategoryCreated(event: CategoryCreated): void;
Information about the category that was created.
// Place this code in the events.js file
// of your site's Backend section.
// Add the file if it doesn't exist.
export function wixBlog_onCategoryCreated(event) {
const categoryId = event.metadata.entityId;
const categoryLabel = event.entity.label;
console.log("Category created", event);
}
/*
* {
* "metadata":{
* "id":"89705db7-dedf-4d44-ad72-de14ecf70793",
* "entityId":"bcf9d83b-ba2f-44e8-ae27-3a9e2b723f54",
* "eventTime":"2022-06-16T15:10:30.876Z"
* },
* "entity":{
* "_id": "1ea22fce-bc3c-4b78-9422-f0f367f8628e",
* "coverImage": "wix:image://v1/162e66_f6bffd1cd6144ddf87325b82fe8f42ed~mv2.jpg#originWidth=385&originHeight=245",
* "description": "Posts about my summer",
* "displayPosition": 2,
* "label": "Summer",
* "language": "en",
* "postCount": 6,
* "rank": 2,
* "slug": "summer-slug"
* "title": "",
* "translationId": "973369ad-0d4b-41f5-a820-1eed7986e0de"
* }
* }
*/
This method doesn’t return any custom errors, but may return standard errors. Learn more about standard Wix errors.