Creates a Joomla category from workflow data so later Create Article steps have somewhere to land.
Creates a Joomla category from workflow data so later Create Article steps have somewhere to land.
When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes Create Category against your linked site or an external integration, using the field values you set on General and Design. Downstream steps can read the output payload fields defined for this node.
Create Category is a action step in the Categories group. Action steps run in the middle or end of a flow. They perform work on your CMS, call external services, or transform data for the next step.
Typical reasons teams add Create Category to a flow:
Common patterns on the canvas:
Title required; alias optional (auto-generated from title if empty).
Returns the new category id for downstream Create Article nodes.
The designer shows these tabs for this node:
| Tab | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Info | Plain-language description and output payload fields for downstream steps |
| General | Canvas label and read-only node ID |
| AI | Optional assistant to help draft settings from plain language |
| Design | Node-specific configuration fields |
These fields are managed by the designer or runtime — you do not type into them directly:
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
_nodeId | Node ID | node-id | No | — | — |
_payloadFields | Available Fields | payload-panel | No | — | — |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
label | Label | text | No | — | Node label |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
title | Category Title | text | Yes | — | Title or {{placeholder}} |
alias | Alias (optional) | text | No | — | URL segment; auto from title if empty |
description | Description | textarea | No | — | Category description |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
parent | Parent Category | category-select | No | — | Select parent (article categories) |
Credentials, API keys, mailers, SMTP, and integration defaults are configured in the CMS plugin under Node Configuration, not per step on this node. Link the flow to a domain before testing CMS-backed fields.
After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as {{create_category.id}}.
| Field key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id | string | Primary record identifier. |
title | string | Title text for the created or updated record. |
alias | string | URL-safe alias / slug. |
parent_id | string | Parent category or menu item ID. |
description | string | Category or contact description text. |
path | string | Filesystem-relative path (often under /images). |
level | number | Nesting level in the category tree. |
already_existed | boolean | True when create found an existing record instead of creating. |
title) must be filled before the flow can be saved.Other steps in the same area of the palette:
wp-create-category) — Categoriesdelete-category) — Categorieswp-delete-category) — Categoriesupdate-category) — Categorieswp-update-category) — Categories