Category Component 26.3
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# CategoryExpandTopics

Allows you to expand a query that might contain category topic names into a full query, which replaces the category names with the queries that they represent.

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.

NOTE: `CategoryExpandTopics` works only with categories that have Boolean training. For example, if you have a category A with training `cat AND dog` and category B with training `apples AND bananas`, sending the `CategoryExpandTopics` action with Expand set to `A AND B` would result in the Category component expanding this string to `cat AND dog AND apples AND bananas`.

## Example

    http://localhost:9020/action=CategoryExpandTopics&Expand=genome

This action returns the expanded query represented by the topic `genome`.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
AndQuery | Whether to query the data index with the expanded query.
Expand | The query text to expand.
Explicit | Whether to expand only those topics that have explicit topic syntax.
Schema | Restrict the expansion to topics in a specific category and its descendants.
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 26.3

Topic Title: CategoryExpandTopics