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Categories: Discourse Categories

Get a list of categoriesThe Categories endpoint returns a list of all the categories for your discourse site that you have access to.

Catalog: Discourse

Schema: Categories

Label: Categories

This is a read-only table. The Discourse API may not support changing the data or the Invantive UniversalSQL driver for Discourse does not cover it. In the latter case, please use the table NativePlatformScalarRequests to upload data to the Discourse API.

Table Columns

The columns of the table Categories are shown below. Each column has an SQL data type.

Name	Data Type	Label	Required
background_url	varchar2	Background URL	☐
can_create_category	char	Can Create Category	☐
can_create_topic	char	Can Create Topic	☐
can_edit	char	Can Edit	☐
can_vote	char		☐
color	varchar2	Colour	☐
default_list_filter	varchar2		☐
default_top_period	varchar2		☐
default_view	varchar2		☐
description_excerpt	varchar2	Description Excerpt	☐
description_text	varchar2	Description Text	☐
description	varchar2	Description	☐
draft_key	varchar2	Draft Key	☐
draft_sequence	int64	Draft Sequence	☐
draft	char	Draft	☐
has_children	char	Has Children	☐
id	int64	ID	☐
is_uncategorized	char		☐
logo_url	varchar2	Logo URL	☐
minimum_required_tags	int32		☐
name	varchar2	Name	☐
navigate_to_first_post_after_read	char		☐
notification_level	varchar2	Notification Level	☐
num_featured_topics	int32		☐
permission	int64	Permission	☐
position	int64	Position	☐
post_count	int64	#Posts	☐
read_restricted	char	Read Restricted	☐
show_subcategory_list	char		☐
slug	varchar2	Slug	☐
sort_order	varchar2	Sort Order	☐
subcategory_list_style	varchar2		☐
text_color	varchar2	Text Colour	☐
topic_count	int64	#Topics	☐
topic_template	varchar2	Topic Template	☐
topic_url	varchar2	Topic URL	☐
topics_all_time	int64	Topics All Time	☐
topics_day	int64	Topics Day	☐
topics_month	int64	Topics Month	☐
topics_week	int64	Topics Week	☐
topics_year	int64	Topics Year	☐
uploaded_logo_height	int32		☐
uploaded_logo_id	int32		☐
uploaded_logo_url	varchar2		☐
uploaded_logo_width	int32		☐

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Discourse Data Model

Categories: Discourse Categories

Table Columns

Important Safety and Usage Information