CategoryFindByFields

Allows you to specify one or more field names and values to return the IDs of all categories that contain the specified values in the specified fields. The field name matching is case insensitive.

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 set the fields and values in Fields and Values. The number of field values specified must match the number of field names specified, and the order of the values must match the order of the names.

NOTE: You create user-defined fields in categories by using the CategorySetDetails action.

Example

http://12.3.4.56:9000/action=CategoryFindByFields&Fields=Author,Country&Values=Tolkien,UK

This action returns the IDs of all categories for which the field Author has the value Tolkien and the field Country has the value UK.

Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

Parameter Description
Fields A comma-separated list of fields to match.
Values A comma-separated list of field values to match.

Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter Description
TaxonomyName The name of a taxonomy that the category to find belongs to.
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.