onCategoryCreated( )


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.

Method Declaration
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function wixBlog_onCategoryCreated(event: CategoryCreated): void;
Method Parameters
eventCategoryCreated

Information about the category that was created.

An event that occurs when a category is created
JavaScript
// 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" * } * } */
Errors

This method doesn’t return any custom errors, but may return standard errors. Learn more about standard Wix errors.

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