Can I as an admin set the default notification types for a given user or create new users with pre-set notifications for given Topics?
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The discussion addresses how admins can set default notifications for new users. bcardarella asks if default notification types can be set for users or pre-configured for new users. cocococosti explains that for individual users, admins can adjust their notification preferences directly. For groups, admins can create a group with default notifications for specific categories or tags, then invite users to join, automatically applying those settings. This is achieved through group settings, as detailed in Discourse’s documentation. Additionally, site-wide settings like default categories watching first post, default categories tracking, and default categories watching can be used to apply defaults to all users, though they aren’t group-specific. cocococosti also links to relevant guides for further details on group and invitation management.
If it is for a single user, you can go the user’s preferences directly and edit the notifications for them:
If you need this for a specific group of users, you could create a Group (read more here: Configuring group access, membership, and visibility) with default notifications in certain category or tags. For example if I want the members of the group “Test” to always receive notifications for Topics in the “Tests” category:
And then send an invitation (read more about it here: Configuring how users can create and send invites for others to join your community) to those users, adding them to the group, like so:
Once the users are part of the group, the notifications settings will be updated in their Preferences page to include the group’s notification defaults: Groups can set category and tag notification levels
You could also set the default categories watching first post, default categories trackingand default categories watchingsite settings. But these would apply to all users not just a specific group.