# Changing topic category in bulk actions doesn't update page properly

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-topic-category-in-bulk-actions-doesnt-update-page-properly/27332
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** bulk-actions
**Created:** [April 8, 2015, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-topic-category-in-bulk-actions-doesnt-update-page-properly/27332 "2015-04-08T09:56:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Maestra\_Powers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maestra_powers/32/37362_2.png) [@Maestra\_Powers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Maestra_Powers)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2015, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-topic-category-in-bulk-actions-doesnt-update-page-properly/27332/1 "2015-04-08T09:56:42Z")

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I did this:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/4/b4156fb80950ff84c64ff0ec0af366d5cb26068e.png)

And here’s the result I see after:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/2/423ba57129e023fbd3dde7b90e6813c246a87c55.png)

Topic was moved, but to see changes, I have to refresh page in browser.

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### Author: ![elberet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elberet/32/122404_2.png) [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2015, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-topic-category-in-bulk-actions-doesnt-update-page-properly/27332/2 "2015-04-08T10:56:57Z")

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Didn’t @neil fix that a while ago?

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-refresh-after-moving-topics-to-different-category/19119?u=elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-refresh-after-moving-topics-to-different-category/19119)

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### Author: ![watchmanmonitor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/watchmanmonitor/32/430970_2.png) [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-topic-category-in-bulk-actions-doesnt-update-page-properly/27332/3 "2015-04-08T12:38:59Z")

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I can confirm that I’ve see the browser force-refresh recently.. I do remember it taking some time to kick in. I felt like I had to specifically wait for it after renaming a category.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-topic-category-in-bulk-actions-doesnt-update-page-properly/27332/4 "2015-04-09T03:49:09Z")

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This is in bulk actions though, @eviltrout would have to check.

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-topic-category-in-bulk-actions-doesnt-update-page-properly/27332/5 "2015-04-10T16:43:58Z")

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Looksl like was a regression here. I’ve got a commit that fixes it:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/afe0781c50f055db39e5dd214a77dcdee57e4c00](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/afe0781c50f055db39e5dd214a77dcdee57e4c00)

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-topic-category-in-bulk-actions-doesnt-update-page-properly/27332/6 "2015-04-10T17:21:03Z")

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