Category Component 26.1
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# CategorySetDetails

Allows you to set details for a category. You can also use `CategorySetDetails` to create new fields in a 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.

You must specify one of the following parameter combinations for `CategorySetDetails`:

- Name

- Fields and Values

Four special Fields are available, which you can use to control the terms that are included in a category.

NOTE: A category cannot have the same name as another category with the same immediate parent category.

## Examples

    http://12.3.4.56:9020/action=CategorySetDetails&Category=324987602&Fields=AUTHOR,WORK&Values=Austen,Emma

This action sets the value of the `AUTHOR` field for the category with the ID `324987602` to `Austen`, and the value of the `WORK` field to `Emma`. If the `AUTHOR` and `WORK` fields do not exist in the category, they are added to it with the specified values.

    http://12.3.4.56:9020/action=CategorySetDetails&Category=324987602&Fields=MaxTerms,MinTermWeight&Values=200,3

This action uses the special fields MaxTerms and MinTermWeight to set the maximum number of terms for the category with the ID `324987602` to `200`, and to set the minimum weight that any term included in the category must have to `3`.

## Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Category | The ID of the category to set fields for.

You must set at least one of the following parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Fields | The fields to set for the category.
Name | A new name for the category.
Values | Values for the specified Fields.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
BuildNow | Whether to build the category immediately.
Databases | Restricts results to specific databases.
FieldText | A field restriction to apply to the category results.
NormalMinDocOccs | The minimum number of documents that a term must occur in for it to be given a weight.
NumResults | The maximum number of results to return.
Recurse | Apply these changes to all descendants.
RelevantCat | The child category to use as the relevant category.
SimpleCatDefaultCat | The child category to use as the default category for CategorySimpleCategorize.
SimpleCatParam | A weighting factor to use in CategorySimpleCategorize.
TaxonomyRoot | Whether this category is the root of a taxonomy.
Threshold | The relevance threshold of results.
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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Version 26.1 | Last updated January 2026

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Category Component 26.1

Topic Title: CategorySetDetails