Hi, is there a way to send private messages to the same group but with a different topic title?
My use case:
I had 19 users on the same PM. I’d like to send the same exact group another PM but with a different topic title.
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The discussion revolves around debryc’s question about sending private messages to the same group with different topic titles. pfaffman suggests creating a Discourse Group, but debryc is hesitant due to concerns about cluttering the group page with inactive groups. Instead, debryc considers copying and pasting email addresses in bulk, but pfaffman notes that there is no elegant solution for this problem.
However, pfaffman reveals that groups can be made visible only to members, and debryc discovers that changing the title of a private message is possible, and the email notification will not include the previous discussion, which solves their problem.
Create a group (in the discourse sense of Group, not the vernacular sense of a bunch of people in a pm).
I’m leaning away from creating a discourse group, because I don’t want our group page to be littered with groups that aren’t meant to stay consistently active (like this one). I may just need to copy and paste from an external record of who I want on the PM, then, if Discourse doesn’t have a way to do this.
Is there a way to copy and paste in bulk, instead of entering each email address in one at a time?
I don’t think that there is an elegant solution for your problem.
There are lots of reasons that a creating a group might be too heavy-handed, but you can make groups visible only to members of the group.
I don’t think that there is an easy way to bulk copy-paste recipients into a PM, but sometimes things “just work”.
You can change the title of the PM, but it’ll still be littered with the previous discussion (unless you delete those posts?).
I just tried changing the title on a test message, and the email notification that’s received doesn’t actually have the discussion from before hand, which is good enough! Thank you!