# CategorySettings: Discourse Category Settings
Get a list of categories
The Categories endpoint returns a list of all the categories for your discourse site that you have access to.
- Catalog: `Discourse`
- Schema: `Categories`
- Label: Category Settings
- Retrieve: True
- Insert: True
- Update: False
- Delete: False
## Table Columns
The columns of the table `CategorySettings` are shown below. Each column has an SQL data type. A new non-null value must be provided for every required column at all times during insert.
| Name | Data Type | Label | Required | Documentation |
|---|:---:|---|:---:|---|
| `can_create_category` | `char` | Can Create Category | ☐ | |
| `can_create_topic` | `char` | Can Create Topic | ☐ | |
| `draft_key` | `varchar2` | Draft Key | ☐ | |
| `draft_sequence` | `int64` | Draft Sequence | ☐ | |
| `draft` | `char` | Draft | ☐ | |