# Returns a recipient category from the system by its ID.

This method will look up a recipient category by the specified ID and return it back.

Endpoint: GET /recipientCategories/{tenantId}/{id}
Version: v1-2025-04-18
Security: knox-authorizer

## Path parameters:

  - `tenantId` (string, required)
    The id of the tenant being accessed.

  - `id` (string, required)
    The ID of the recipient category to return.

## Query parameters:

  - `fields` (string)
    The fields that you want to retrieve; if omitted, the entire object is returned.

  - `consistentRead` (string)
    Indicates the API should force a consistent read on the data source.

## Response 200 fields (application/json):

  - `award_id` (string, required)
    The id of the award

  - `display_order` (number)
    The order in which to display the categories

  - `id` (string, required)
    The unique, string identifier of this recipient category

  - `is_active` (boolean)
    Whether or not this is an active category

  - `name` (string, required)
    The name of the recipient category

  - `sys_bulk_load_at` (string)
    If this record was loaded via bulk, the timestamp when the record was processed

  - `sys_bulk_load_id` (string)
    If this record was loaded via bulk, the ID of the bulk load process

  - `sys_bulk_load_pk` (string)
    If this record was loaded via bulk, the tenant and key of the bulk load process used as a partition key

  - `sys_bulk_load_record_no` (number)
    If this record was loaded via bulk, the record number in the source file

  - `sys_bulk_load_source_file` (string)
    If this record was loaded via bulk, the source file

  - `sys_calculated_field_error` (string)
    The error associated with the calculated field

  - `sys_calculated_field_errors` (array)

  - `sys_calculated_field_errors.error` (string)

  - `sys_calculated_field_errors.field` (string)

  - `sys_configuration_snapshot_id` (string)
    If a snapshot was restored/applies to this record, the ID of the snapshot

  - `sys_created_at` (string, required)
    The date/time that this record was created, expressed in ISO-8601 date format

  - `sys_created_by_id` (string, required)
    The ID of the user that created this record

  - `sys_deleted_by_id` (string)
    The ID of the user that deleted (or last tried to delete) this object

  - `sys_directive` (string)
    Means for passing directive information into an object processing logic

  - `sys_external_id` (string)
    The ID that a record has from an external system or data import

  - `sys_has_files_in_s3` (boolean)
    If true, this record has files in S3. If false, it doesnt, so no need to hit S3 upon deletion

  - `sys_last_bulk_data_operation_id` (string)
    If this record was last touched by a bulk data operation, the ID of that operation

  - `sys_last_bulk_data_operation_sys_version` (string)
    If this record was last touched by a bulk data operation, the sys_version at the time of that operation

  - `sys_last_modified_at` (string, required)
    The date/time that this record record was last modified, expressed in ISO-8601 date format

  - `sys_last_modified_by_id` (string, required)
    The ID of the user that last modified this record

  - `sys_last_security_context` (object)
    The security context of the last insert, modify, or delete performed on this item

  - `sys_locked` (boolean)
    If set, this record is locked and cannot be changed via the API

  - `sys_snapshot_base_version` (number)
    The version to use as a base when creating a configuration snapshot; if not set, 1 is used. Helpful when creating a sandbox

  - `sys_version` (number)
    A number representing the version of this record in the database


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