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updatedAt: 2026-02-10T11:59:42.000Z
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# Bulk Delete Categories
Bulk deletes a list of categories.
Any categories specified that do not require deletion will be ignored.
# OpenAPI definition
```json
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"x-explorer-enabled": false,
"x-samples-languages": [
"curl",
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"java",
"javascript",
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],
"info": {
"title": "Admin - Match",
"description": "Administration of categories, attributes, and queues used in Matching.\n\nQueue's are used to identify a pool of contact center agents for which Customer engagements can be matched and routed.\n",
"contact": {
"name": "Avaya API Team",
"url": "https://developers.avayacloud.com/onecloud-ccaas",
"email": "apiteam@avaya.com"
},
"license": {
"name": "Avaya Software Development Kit (SDK) Software License Terms",
"url": "http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/101038288"
},
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"tags": [
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"name": "Category",
"description": "Routing is implemented by matching the attributes specified on an engagement, either through customer\nchoice or by business logic, against the attributes associated with the members of the pool of available agents.\n"
}
],
"paths": {
"/accounts/{accountId}/categories:bulkDelete": {
"post": {
"tags": [
"Category"
],
"summary": "Bulk Delete Categories",
"description": "Bulk deletes a list of categories.\n\nAny categories specified that do not require deletion will be ignored.\n",
"operationId": "bulkDeleteCategories",
"parameters": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/parameters/accountId"
}
],
"requestBody": {
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"type": "array",
"description": "List of category ids",
"minItems": 1,
"maxItems": 10,
"items": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/CategoryId"
}
},
"examples": {
"previous": {
"$ref": "#/components/examples/BulkDeleteCategoryArray"
}
}
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"name": "accountId",
"description": "The unique 6 character internal id that represents the customer account",
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"schema": {
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"pattern": "^[a-zA-Z]{6}$",
"example": "ABCDEF"
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"description": "An absolute URI that identifies the problem type. When dereferenced, it SHOULD provide human-readable documentation for the problem type (e.g., using HTML).\n",
"default": "about:blank",
"example": "https://developers.avayacloud.com/onecloud-ccaas/docs/error-handling#constraint-violation"
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"field": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name of the field in the request that caused the violation. This can be the name of a path parameter, query parameter, or a field within the request body.\n",
"example": "accountId"
},
"message": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A human readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the violation.\n",
"example": "must match \"^[a-zA-Z]{6}$\""
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"type": "integer",
"format": "int32",
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{
"field": "emailAddress",
"message": "must not be null",
"code": 20002
},
{
"field": "accountId",
"message": "must match \"^[a-zA-Z]{6}$\"",
"code": 20006
}
]
}
}
},
"CategoryId": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 36,
"maxLength": 36,
"pattern": "^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}\\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\\-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$",
"description": "The unique 36 character internal id that represents the category.",
"example": "4331fa35-9671-4ea0-94e0-517097a5a13a"
}
},
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"BulkDeleteCategoryArray": {
"description": "Array of category ids to delete.\n",
"value": [
"4331fa35-9671-4ea0-94e0-517097a5a13a",
"a730d229-c386-43df-9241-b5191af2725c"
]
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"status": 400,
"detail": "A problem that indicates a syntactically correct, yet semantically illegal request. The Server can not process this request until the client resolves the semantic errors described in the violations section.",
"violations": [
{
"field": "accountId",
"message": "must match \"^[a-zA-Z]{6}$\"",
"code": 20006
}
]
}
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"description": "Unauthorized",
"value": {
"type": "https://developers.avayacloud.com/onecloud-ccaas/docs/error-handling#unauthorized",
"title": "Unauthorized",
"status": 401,
"detail": "This operation requires authentication. See https://developers.avayacloud.com/onecloud-ccaas/docs/how-to-authenticate-with-ccaas-apis"
}
},
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"description": "Forbidden",
"value": {
"type": "https://developers.avayacloud.com/onecloud-ccaas/docs/error-handling#forbidden",
"title": "Forbidden",
"status": 403,
"detail": "According to the access control policy the current user and/or accountId does not have permission to access this resource."
}
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"description": "Not Found",
"value": {
"type": "https://developers.avayacloud.com/onecloud-ccaas/docs/error-handling#resource-not-found",
"title": "Resource Not Found",
"status": 404,
"detail": "Either there is no API method associated with the URL path of the request, or the request refers to one or more resources that were not found."
}
},
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"description": "Server Error",
"value": {
"type": "https://developers.avayacloud.com/onecloud-ccaas/docs/error-handling#server-error",
"title": "Server Error",
"status": 500,
"detail": "An internal server error was encountered."
}
}
}
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```