Category Component 25.2
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# CategoryActivate

Allows you to activate or deactivate a category.

You must specify the category by setting Category. To activate a category, set Active to `True`. The default value (`False`) deactivates the category.

NOTE: This is an administrative action that can be sent only by users that belong to an authorization role that allows the `Admin` standard role, or which enables the action explicitly. See Authorization Roles Configuration Parameters.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9020/action=CategoryActivate&Category=32349987602210557106&Active=True

This action activates the category with the ID `32349987602210557106`.

## Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Category | The ID of the category to activate or deactivate.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Active | Whether to activate or deactivate the category.
Recurse | Whether to activate or deactivate the children of the category.
UserName | The name of the user that sends the action.

This action accepts the following standard ACI action parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
ActionID | A string to use to identify an ACI action.
FileName | The file to write output to.
ForceTemplateRefresh | Forces the server to load the template from disk.
Output | Writes output to a file.
ResponseFormat | The format of the action output.
Template | The template to use for the action output.
TemplateParamCSVs | A list of variables to use for the specified template.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Category Component 25.2

Topic Title: CategoryActivate