Using REST API to create objects with metadata - parent categories not inherited

Hi,
This is on a CS 16.2.8 system. When I used the REST API's POST of api/v2/nodes/{id} to create an object, and pass everything in to the body so I can create attributes, what I noticed is that it will lop off the otherwise inherited category. For some of our use cases, this is what we want but for others, we may want the category inheritance. Besides creating the object then doing a separate call to add the new categories, is there a way to ensure that the parent categories do get inherited? I know inheritance is not turned off because if I just create a folder in that location, it automatically inherits the parent category.
Thanks
-Hugh

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Stuart_Robertson

Hi Hugh, i've not tested this, but in the implementation notes section of the REST API documentation, there is an example of a parameter: "[category_id]_inheritance": true/false
there are a few examples of it;s uses there too.
I think if you supply as true this along with the category you want inherited, it may fit your requirements.

HFCDev

Not quite the use case I'm looking for. I want to be able to add a category to a folder I'm creating but have it pick up whichever categories are on the parent without me having to know what they are ahead of time.
-Hugh

Matthew_Pinkney

There currently isn't a way to do that in one call. The best way is likely to create the node with inheritance on and then with a separate call add the new category.
If you tried to do it by getting the categories on the parent ahead of time and then make your category list to use in the create it may be missing categories that user doesn't have perms to.