Delete Contact Category is a Step (action) in Contacts. Deletes a contact category by id or picker.
Delete Contact Category is a Step (action) in Contacts. Deletes a contact category by id or picker.
When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes Delete Contact 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.
Delete Contact Category is a action step in the Contacts 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 Delete Contact Category to a flow:
Common patterns on the canvas:
Fails if child categories exist or contacts still use the category.
Move or delete contacts first, then child categories.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
contactCategoryId_manual | Contact category id or {{placeholder}} | payload-text | No | — | e.g. 12 or {{create_contact_category_1.id}} — or choose below (category title appears here when using the picker) |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
contactCategoryId | Contact category to delete | contact-category-select | No | — | Select category (fills the line above when the id is numeric) |
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 {{delete_contact_category.id}}.
| Field key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id | string | Primary record identifier. |
deleted | boolean | Whether the record was deleted. |
Other steps in the same area of the palette:
create-contact) — Contactscreate-contact-category) — Contactsdelete-contact) — Contactsupdate-contact) — Contactsupdate-contact-category) — Contacts