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 catego…

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. [image] Christina: 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 cre…

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 ?

You could try output your category data via the rails console or data explorer , and see if there’s anything weird in it. :thinking:

I’ve slipped this over to Support as we couldn’t get a clear repro. Did you manage to resolve this in the end?

Error 422 when reordering categories

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Error 422 when reordering categories

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