---
title: targetColumn
framework: createml
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: createml/mlsupportvectorclassifier/targetcolumn
---

# targetColumn

The name of the column you selected at initialization to define which categories the classifier predicts.

## Declaration

```swift
var targetColumn: String
```

## Discussion

Discussion Changing the value of this property doesn’t retrain the model or affect its behavior.

## See Also

### Creating and training a support vector classifier

- [init(trainingData:targetColumn:featureColumns:parameters:)](createml/mlsupportvectorclassifier/init(trainingdata:targetcolumn:featurecolumns:parameters:).md)
- [MLSupportVectorClassifier.ModelParameters](createml/mlsupportvectorclassifier/modelparameters-swift.struct.md)
- [modelParameters](createml/mlsupportvectorclassifier/modelparameters-swift.property.md)
- [featureColumns](createml/mlsupportvectorclassifier/featurecolumns.md)