# Error 422 when reordering categories
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-422-when-reordering-categories/270056
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 29, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-422-when-reordering-categories/270056 "2023-06-29T17:07:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Christina](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Christina)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-422-when-reordering-categories/270056/1 "2023-06-29T17:07:47Z")
Good morning,
Discourse version 3.1.0.beta4
I’m trying to reorder the categories from the UI and when I press save order I get a 422 error. Interesting fact: my categories on the main Discourse page doesn’t have the same order on the reorder categories page.
Example : I have the supervisor category at position 4 on my main page, on the other hand when I go on the reorder categories page, the supervisor category is not at position 4, but at position 23 and if I press on save , it will go to position 23 as shown in the reorder categories page. I have the 422 error that appears, but there are still changes that have taken place.
Last week I had no problems with the reorganization, I only had this problem when I moved the new category my script created today to the first position.
In the preview page of Chrome I have a little more details about the error:
The change you wanted was rejected. Maybe you tried to change something you didn’t have access to.
I’m admin, so I shouldn’t get this error.
In the source code I have this exception that throws :
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ‘\<’ "\
### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-422-when-reordering-categories/270056/3 "2023-07-18T19:29:17Z")
I’m afraid I can’t replicate this on my test site. When I change the order of the categories they reorder without any error.
> [@Christina](#):
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> I only had this problem when I moved the new category my script created today to the first position.
Could it be something to do with how you’ve created this category outside of the UI?
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### Author:  [@Christina](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Christina)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-422-when-reordering-categories/270056/4 "2023-07-20T13:21:43Z")
Maybe, but I’ve done lots of categories this way and never had an issue. I did it through the API. I know that one of my categories had a name too long and my script was not able to create it, do you think it could be the issue ?
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-422-when-reordering-categories/270056/5 "2023-07-20T14:20:43Z")
You could try output your category data via the rails console or [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true), and see if there’s anything weird in it. 🤔
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-422-when-reordering-categories/270056/6 "2023-09-05T22:22:01Z")
I’ve slipped this over to #Support as we couldn’t get a clear repro.
Did you manage to resolve this in the end?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-422-when-reordering-categories/270056/7 "2024-05-18T23:12:05Z")
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