(Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically

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It looks like you’re typing %? Don’t :wink:. That’s just supposed to be an indication that you’re in the rails console instead of the docker container. I’ll edit the OP to be clearer.

Edit: OP edited.

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Thanks. Rookie error on my part :smiley:

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No worries at all. We all start from the beginning at some point.

Is the guide clearer now?

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Oh it makes total sense. Thanks

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Actually… I’m stuck on the query. I need to update category ID 1 to notification level of regular (1).
From rails… I’m typing

User.exec_sql("INSERT INTO category_users(category_id, user_id, notification_level) SELECT 1, u.id, 1 FROM users u LEFT JOIN category_users cu ON cu.category_id = 1 AND cu.user_id = u.id WHERE cu.user_id IS NULL;")

I get response

<PG::Result:0x000055fadb534428 status=PGRES_COMMAND_OK ntuples=0 nfields=0 cmd_tuples=0>

Via the GUI/forums, it looks like it hasn’t changed.

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Going to call in an assist here from @sam, PostgreSQL isn’t my area of expertise.

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Circling back to see if anyone has ideas on where I’m going wrong with my sql query?

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The query you tried will only update the tracking level IF the user isn’t already tracking/watching/muting a category. It sounds like you want to remove any users that are watching a category.

If that’s correct, try running this on the rails console. It will find all users that are ‘watching’ the category with id=5, and set them to “regular”:

CategoryUser.where(notification_level: CategoryUser.notification_levels[:watching], category_id: 5).update_all(notification_level: CategoryUser.notification_levels[:regular])

:warning: As always, make sure to take a backup before running anything on the console - the smallest typo can have massive consequences!

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Thanks David. I must have misunderstood the purpose of the query. I thought it was to update (ie lower the subscription level) for all users UNLESS they explicitly set it themselves vs it being assigned via the setting in admin panel.

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The more precise definition here is “for all users UNLESS it has already been set”. We don’t have any way of knowing whether a user set it themselves, or it was automatically set by the admin panel default.

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That makes sense because when I (thought I) saw that, I thought “well that’s impressive that we have that granularity”

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Not to be a pest, but I’m still struggling with this, getting a syntax error when I run this query…

[4] pry(main)> User.exec_sql("INSERT INTO CategoryUser.where(notification_level: CategoryUser.notification_levels[:watching], category_id: 1).update_all(notification_level: CategoryUser.notification_levels[:regular];")

PG::SyntaxError: ERROR:  syntax error at or near ":"
LINE 1: INSERT INTO CategoryUser.where(notification_level: CategoryU...

Any ideas on what I’m overlooking?

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Sorry, I should have been clearer there. The command I shared does not need to be run inside “exec_sql”. It can just be run directly on the rails console.

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Sorry to spam the topic with this more rudimentary stuff. I’m still having difficulties

From the rails console (at least I think it is)

/var/discourse# ./launcher rails c
/var/discourse# CategoryUser.where(notification_level: CategoryUser.notification_levels[:watching], category_id: 1).update_all(notification_level: CategoryUser.notification_levels[:regular])

bash: syntax error near unexpected token `notification_level:’

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You are missing a:

rails c before running the command. You want to be in Ruby not in Bash.

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You need to run that inside the container.

./launcher enter app

Before the rails command

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Thanks Jay. Yeah I figured that out while I was working on it today. The trigger being when I was prompted to install rails :joy:

I got this to work today, checked a few accounts via impersonate and it looks like we’ll no longer be spamming our members with 100emails a day (nor paying to send them)

Thanks all

James

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I guess it will take some time to complete, right?
Because the command output was inmediate, with this result:
#<PG::Result:0x000055e37f159100 status=PGRES_COMMAND_OK ntuples=0 nfields=0 cmd_tuples=8428>
How long could it take to complete? Because I checked an user profile and it is still watching that category

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It should be nearly instant. That output shows that 8,428 records were changed. I assume that’s the user count on your forum? I’d double check that you set the correct category ID and notification level ID.

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That was not the query I was looking for :man_facepalming:

This one worked:

CategoryUser.where(notification_level: CategoryUser.notification_levels[:watching], category_id: 29).update_all(notification_level: CategoryUser.notification_levels[:regular])

It’s the one @david posted above

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