My forum pulls together engineers to work on humanitarian aid design. It’s just kicking-off, and we’re tweaking discourse by using for a single project designing water supply to a community in need. Now, in order to keep our work private during the development, we’ve created a group and related pr…

[image] Joshua_Kogan: Are there any settings or plugins that create a more-agitated alert (buzz, sound, animation, etc.) if someone has either PM’d Those are sent via e-mail (and push notifications) which in today world are the most disruptive you can get (phone makes noise, vibrates, smartwa…

Re: emails, can a group member receive an email each time there is a post in a group-specific an private category? If so, can you please point me in the right direction? Also, any way to have a group summary email go out each day, or some other frequency, that only includes group-specific category…

You can have members of the group watch the categories. You can have group members watch a category with a plugin. There are some exemplars if you search here. The summary email is generated per user for the categories that they can see. You can see what it looks like for any user from /admin/email…

[image] pfaffman: You can have group members watch a category with a plugin. No plugin is necessary for this, but you might need to enter commands at the command line to force users to watch a category.

Could commands be written to force all group members to watch specific group-only categories, then another command for force the update email activity summary daily only for these categories? If yes, and yes, would you mind providing some direction? I’m not too experienced. Also, will doing this …

Sure the info you need is here [image] (Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically Self-Hosting warning Following the release of Discourse v2.4.0.beta7 (or if you have this commit ), admins now have the option to set the category tracking levels of all exi…

[image] Joshua_Kogan: force all group members to watch specific group-only categories, Make members of a group watch a category by default - #43 by alehandrof describes a plugin that does that [image] Joshua_Kogan: force the update email activity summary daily only for these categories? …

Group summary notifications & UI notification enhancements?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) September 20, 2019, 12:09am 7

Sure the info you need is here

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