Velo: Wix Forum "Categories" Collection Fields

Tip: Before continuing, make sure you've read Working with Wix App Collections.

This document describes the permissions and fields in your Categories collection. 

Permissions

The Categories collection has the following permissions:

  • Read: Anyone
  • Create: None
  • Update: None
  • Delete: None

You cannot change the Categories collection's permissions. 

Fields

Note: This app collection contains read-only fields that cannot be managed from the collection. You can update the fields from the relevant app in your site’s dashboard.

The field name is listed as the heading of each section, with the field ID listed in parentheses, like this: Name (name). The fields appear in this document in the order in which they appear in your collection by default.

ID (_id)

Description: The category ID.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne, hasSome

Read-only: Yes

Parent ID (parentId)

Description: ID of the parent category (for subcategories).

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne

Read-only: Yes

Name (name)

Description: Category name.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: Yes

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne, contains, startsWith, hasSome

Read-only: Yes

Header Title (headerTitle)

Description: Title in the category header.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: Yes

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne, contains, startsWith, hasSome

Read-only: Yes

Description (description)

Description: Description in the category header.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: contains, startsWith, hasAll

Read-only: Yes

Header Type (headerType)

Description: Type of category header.

Type: String

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne

Read-only: Yes

Notes: Either "COLOR" or "IMAGE".

Header Image (headerImage)

Description: Header Image.

Type: Image

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Header Image Overlay Color (headerImageOverlayColor)

Description: Header image overlay color.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: No

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Header Background Color (headerBackgroundColor)

Description: Header background color.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: No

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Header Text Color (headerTextColor)

Description: Header text color.

Type: No

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Rank (rank)

Description: Category order, where 0 indicates the first category.

Type: Number

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

Post Count (postCount)

Description: Number of posts in the category.

Type: Number

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

Post View Count (postViewCount)

Description: Number of times the posts in the category have been viewed.

Type: Number

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

Write Protection

Description: 

Type: Boolean

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No 

Can be filtered: No 

Read-only: Yes

Page URL (pageUrl)

Description: URL of the category page.

Type: URL

Can connect to data: Yes, can connect as a button click action.

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Slug (slug)

Description: The category's slug, which is its URL-friendly name that is unique across the forum.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: Yes

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: Yes

Read-only: Yes

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