3.3.4.1.1. Category and Category home

The Category node is used to store all categories of forum, this node is a child node of the Forum Data node and only the Category node type can be added to the Category Home node. The type of the Category Home node which is exo:categoryHome is stored in /exo:applications/ForumService/ForumData/CategoryHome. The Category node has the exo:forumCategory type which is a child node of the CategoryHome node. This node type is defined to allow adding child nodes as exo:forum and exo:forumRSS.

The exo:forumCategory node type has the following properties:

Properties name	Required type	Multiple	Description
exo:id	String	false	The category Id.
exo:owner	String	false	The category creator.
exo:path	String	false	The node path of the category.
exo:createdDate	Date	false	The date when the category was created.
exo:modifiedBy	String	false	The Id of the user who made the last modification on the category.
exo:name	String	false	The category name.
exo:modifiedDate	Date	false	The date when the modifications on category were made.
exo:description	String	false	The category description.
exo:moderators	String	true	The list of moderators of the category.
exo:tempModerators	String	true	The temporary moderator of the category.
exo:createTopicRole	String	true	The topic role.
exo:poster	String	true	The list of Ids of the users and groups who can post in the category.
exo:viewer	String	true	The list of Ids of the users and groups who can only view posts in the category.
exo:categoryOrder	Long	false	The order number of category in the category list.
exo:userPrivate	String	true	The list of user Ids whose access are restricted from the category.
exo:forumCount	Long	false	The total number of forums in the category.
exo:includedSpace	Boolean	false	Checks whether a category includes a space forum or not.

The exo:forumCategory can add the exo:forumWatching mixin type which has the following properties:

Properties name	Required type	Multiple	Description
exo:emailWatching	String	true	Lists email addresses which are used to watch categories/forums/topics.
exo:userWatching	String	true	Lists users who are watching categories/forums/topics.
exo:rssWatching	String	true	Lists users who are watching RSS of categories/forums/topics.