I am interested in trying to automatically add new topics to a watch list when created by a user in a specific group. i.e. Customer/user starts topic and specific Sales/user gets announcement based on the group that the Customer/user is part of. My forum is hosted by Discourse, so plugins are not r…

Can you tell us a little more about what you are trying to achieve? Would it be enough for you to have your sales team monitor the group’s activity? That is a list of posts, in reverse order. Example: Discourse team - Discourse Meta You could also use the “auto tag topic” automation, and set it up…

I believe this is what you are looking for: [image] Make members of a group watch a category by default Feature Pretty sure this is complete confetti_ball [image] Under group → manage → categories [image] Groups can set category a…

I want an individual to track any topic, in any category, created by any individual in a specific group. I was able to find a plugin, Discourse Tag by Group , but would need to petition the inclusion of this to the hosted forum repository.

Sorry, I think I misread your question. AFAIK this isn’t possible in core yet, but I may be wrong.

With being hosted by Discourse. You might be able to see if a custom automation script maybe as iirc Automation plugin I believe was merged with core. Have you considered messaging support? Maybe see if you can perhaps sponsor a custom automation? As with being hosted you only have access to plu…

[image] tobiaseigen: … You could also use the “auto tag topic” automation, and set it up to add a specific tag to posts by members of a specific group. Then have your sales team watch that tag. If you don’t want your members see the tag, you can put it in a tag group visible only to admins and…

Thanks @Heliosurge , I always try to due diligence with the community before support. The automation script Auto Tag Topic along with setting a “hidden” tag group, seems to be my solution.

Tracking topics created by member of group

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) April 14, 2025, 7:30pm 9

Yeah that was pretty cool learning about the autotag automation as it matches the plugin you linked.

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Auto-watch based on group membership Feature	2	1382	February 10, 2018
Feature Suggestion: When posting topics in certain categories it will tag certain groups Feature	1	493	May 23, 2018
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Highlight posts by a specific group Product Support	4	675	July 25, 2018
Make members of a group watch a category by default Feature completed	87	26563	April 21, 2022

Tracking topics created by member of group

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