Can watching a category watch all its subcategories as well?

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The only situation in which I can see that being truly useful is where:

  1. There is a category with a lot of subcategories and
  2. These subcategories are quite dynamic, and added to / moved very frequently

That seems to be a pretty narrow use-case! But one which I just so happen to be considering embarking upon, so I’m delighted :grin:

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Yup, we needed it ourselves for a specific use-case so I left a note here. Glad it might help :slight_smile:

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I can see this in meta.discourse.org, but not in our own instance. I checked and we’re both using 3.2.0.beta2-dev. Do I need to explicitly enable this behaviour in settings?

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Hey Aidan,

You’re right, I see the behavior only on Meta but not on other sites. We’ll do some digging and come back to you.

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Hey Aidan,

I can confirm that there’s no setting for this behavior, but it can sometimes be erratic depending on case sensitivity or if there are multiple words in the category name. @JammyDodger and I did some testing to find that it can help if you:

  • Type the full name of the category to make the “+x categories” option appear

  • If your category has multiple words, enter the first word, add a space and then the “+x categories” option should pop up

Does that help? It isn’t ideal, but we can get this fixed once we’ve tracked down all the edge cases here.

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