# Create custom route
**URL:** https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010
**Category:** Help me!
**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010 "2021-03-04T09:34:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Ilias\_El-mhamdi](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Ilias_El-mhamdi)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010/1 "2021-03-04T09:34:30Z")
Hello,
I trying to override the user creation route.
I want to use my api to create the user.
I have managed to throw an error if something goes wrong by tweaking the user file in the route folder.
But I didn’t find a way to tell forest admin that everything went right and that it doesn’t need to create a user since I’ve already done it (sending a request with status 200 triggers an error).
Is it possible to do it ?
Thank you for your help,
Best,
Ilias
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### Author:  [@anon79585656](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon79585656)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 9:53am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010/2 "2021-03-04T09:53:36Z")
Hello @Ilias_El-mhamdi,
I am not sure to understand what you mean by “creating the user” yourself. Could you please elaborate? Maybe sharing the modifications you made to the user file would help.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@Ilias\_El-mhamdi](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Ilias_El-mhamdi)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 10:01am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010/3 "2021-03-04T10:01:06Z")
Hi
It was for my category table.
Here is what I’am trying to do.
routes/category.js
```javascript
// Create a Category
router.post(
"/category",
permissionMiddlewareCreator.create(),
async (request, response, next) => {
// Learn what this route does here: https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation/v/v6/reference-guide/routes/default-routes#create-a-record
console.log("create category");
const categoryData = request.body.data;
let departementId;
try {
departementId = categoryData.relationships.department.data.id;
} catch (err) {}
console.log(departementId, "dep id");
let categoryToCreate = {
departmentId: departementId,
};
try {
//creating the category using my backend api
let res = await network.createCategory(categoryTocreate);
console.log(res);
} catch (err) {
//error during the creation
response.status(500).send("can't create category");
return null;
}
//telling forest that the creation was successful
response.status(200).send("category created");
return null;
next();
}
);
```
Tell me if it’s not clear or if you need more infos
Thank you for your help and fast reply
Ilias
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### Author:  [@anon79585656](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon79585656)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010/4 "2021-03-04T13:15:52Z")
@Ilias_El-mhamdi,
Could you try to replace the end of you function by just
```javascript
response.status(200).send("category created");
```
If you compare you code with our [documentation](https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation/reference-guide/routes/default-routes#create-a-record). The `return` and `next` statements are not required.
Do you have an error message to share?
I think you should also use the `res` value as a parameter to `response.send` to share the created record with your admin panel. It may need some data transformation to have the expected format.
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### Author:  [@Ilias\_El-mhamdi](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Ilias_El-mhamdi)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010/5 "2021-03-04T14:11:46Z")
Hello,
Thank you for your help.
It’s starting work when I give res as then send parameter. I have the notification creation success but I still get an error.
It may be because my res Json dosesn’t have enough info, I just have the id of the created category. And I see that in the documentation :
.then(recordSerialized =\> response.send(recordSerialized))
What info should be in the recordSerialized, the problem might lie there.
Thank you,
Best,
Ilias
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### Author:  [@anon79585656](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon79585656)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010/6 "2021-03-04T14:17:56Z")
This might add some processing delay, but you can try using the `RecordGetter`. See this: [Smart field reference link](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/smart-field-reference-link/2011)
The process can be similar to:
1. call `await network.createCategory(categoryTocreate);`
2. call `const record = await recordGetter.get(res.id)` (or `res` depending on how the id is returned by your API)
3. finish by `response.send(recordGetter.serialize(record))`
This is just guess-coding, but the idea is: create via you API, and then get it via Forest API and return it.
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### Author:  [@Ilias\_El-mhamdi](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Ilias_El-mhamdi)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010/7 "2021-03-04T14:38:38Z")
It’s working !!!
I had to import
const {
RecordGetter,
} = require(“forest-express-sequelize”);
add
const recordGetter = new RecordGetter(category);
and add an await before the serialisation
const serialized = await recordGetter.serialize(record);
But it’s working !!
Thank you !
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### Author:  [@mostafa\_hatem](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/mostafa_hatem)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010/8 "2021-08-04T17:02:35Z")
I have the same problem but when i do
const recordGetter = new RecordGetter(category);
this gives an error:
Unexpected error: Cannot read property ‘timezone’ of undefined
how can i fix this?
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### Author:  [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-custom-route/2010/9 "2021-08-05T13:40:41Z")
Hi @mostafa_hatem !
Are you on v8 ? If you are, we revamped the scopes in this version and it brings some breaking changes, you can take a look at [the documentation](https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation/how-tos/maintain/upgrade-notes-sql-mongodb/upgrade-to-v8#scopes) to see what you need to do.