Category Component 26.1
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# CategorySetPermissions

Allows you to specify which role has access permissions for a specific category, and what these access permissions are for role members and non-members.

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=CategorySetPermissions&Category=32349987602210557106&Role=USA&MemberPermissions=Read

This action grants all members of the `USA` role `Read` access to the category with the ID `32349987602210557106`.

## Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

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

You must set at least one of the following parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
MemberPermissions | The permissions to grant to role members.
NonMemberPermissions | The permissions to grant to non-members of the role.
Role | The role for which to set category access permissions.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Recurse | Apply the permission changes to 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.

## Comments

You must set one of the following parameters:

- MemberPermissions

- NonMemberPermissions

- Role

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Category Component 26.1

Topic Title: CategorySetPermissions