onCategoryUpdated( )


A backend event that fires when a forum category is updated.

The onCategoryUpdated() event handler runs when a an existing forum category in your site is updated. The received UpdatedCategory object contains information about the category that was updated.

Note: Backend events are not fired when previewing your site.

Method Declaration
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function onCategoryUpdated(event: UpdatedCategory): void;
Method Parameters
eventUpdatedCategoryRequired

Information about the forum category that was updated.

In this example, the category header background is an image.

JavaScript
// Place this code in a file named events.js // in the Backend section of your code files. export function wixForum_onCategoryUpdated(event) { const categoryId = event.categoryId; const categoryName = event.category.name; } /* Full category object: * { * "_id": "5f88058be9b6b100175b154d", * "name": "My Updated Category Name", * "headerTitle": "My Updated Category Header Title", * "description": "This is a description of my category.", * "headerType": "IMAGE", * "headerImage": "wix:image://v1/a27d24_3...46~mv2.jpg/_.jpg#originWidth=940&originHeight=529", * "headerImageOverlayColor": { * "color": "#40E0D0", * "opacity": 0.1 * }, * "rank": 2, * "slug": "my-updated-category-name", * "pageUrl": "/forum/my-updated-category-name", * "postCount": 3, * "postViewCount": 56, * "writeProtected": "true", * "_createdDate": "2020-10-26T07:18:20.297Z", * "_updatedDate": "2020-11-04T12:27:05.592Z" * } */
Errors

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

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