I’m making a master bugfix list topic in my community that grabs content from other topics via API/webhooks, but I’m having trouble alerting users who are watching the topic. My topic is registering each iteration as an edit (good). I’ve tried: Setting them to watching Not on the page when it upd…

Maybe it’s this bug? [image] Sporadic Wiki Post notifications Bug I’ve been trying to get some repro steps, but it did get a little confusing. slightly_smiling_face It seems it doesn’t like consecutives, but I’ll post my notes and let someone else see if t…

Watching the topic and first post a wiki used to work :eyes: (I rely on that in some forums.) [image] Get notifications from a wiki edit Support You should get edit notifications if you are watching the topic, and the wiki is the OP I guess a workaro…

[image] Moin: Seems watching and wiki in OP still works. That’s so weird. I’m trying on two different test users and neither are being notified. I thought I had a breakthrough shifting the API calls from system to my account, but no luck. My users are being notified of the new topic, but not…

Assuming I can’t figure it out, the jank workaround that I have is to create public groups that people can join if they want updates on the bug fix lists, then tag that group with every edit. TBD if editing a topic where someone is tagged re-notifies them? This sounds like Monday problem to solve,…

How fast are you testing? Do you wait for Editing grace period before trying the edit?

I hadn’t thought about that (our grace period is 10min). I’ll do some further testing today! [image] pfaffman: Did you try making it a wiki? Yes, which seems to be the way to have it trigger. TBD on the grace period test.

I was able to trigger it with my first edit, but haven’t been able to since, even when I wait the grace period (10 minutes) before checking with my test users.

That sounds right unfortunately. Thanks @Moin !

How to notify when posts edits via API?

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putty (putty) December 15, 2025, 2:11pm 7

I hadn’t thought about that (our grace period is 10min). I’ll do some further testing today!

Yes, which seems to be the way to have it trigger. TBD on the grace period test.

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How to notify when posts edits via API?

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