I’m looking for a way to automatically mute a category when a user leaves a group.
What I Want to Achieve
When a user joins a group, they track the group’s related category (this works via Group Category Notification Default). [ I already did it with Custom Wizard plugin]
When a user leaves a group, their related category should be muted automatically, so they stop receiving notifications and email digests.
Ideally, this should be fully automated without manual intervention.
My Questions
Is there a built-in way (without coding or API calls) to mute a category when a user leaves a group? Would it be possible to add “User Leaves Group” as a trigger in the Discourse Automations Plugin? Any workarounds that don’t require manual admin intervention?
I’d love to hear how others have handled this scenario or if there’s any feature request in progress to add this capability.
Thanks @Jagster.
Yes, I noticed it that there is no access after leaving the group.
But still the category appearing in user side. And latest posts also appearing in latest tab.
I just want to mute the related category to not show it there.
I am looking for a automated process for this scenario.
I think you might need maybe a Custom Automation maybe.
Though this type of idea would be a nice addition to group settings maybe as a toggle when one leaves group. To undo/mute certain things originally changed)granted when added to a group
Not sure but you might also either be able to use custom wizard if it can be auto triggered or maybe paired with an automation. I would check with Pavilion.
If it’s the latter, I would say this is actually a Bug (or better: the implementation does not fit this use case, while it feels logical that it would).
When I set group X to watch category Y, and become a member of that group, I’m indeed automatically watching category Y. Category Y is copied to my “watching” categories. There is no trace of how it got there, we don’t know if it was there because I added it before or if it was there because of my group membership.
When I leave group X, I keep watching category Y. The category is not removed from my “watching” categories, as one would expect.
Changing this implementation would be quite an effort, so I guess this would be something for a plugin right now. Just have something trigger on group removal
with the :user_removed_from_group event, get the categories, remove them from the user preferences.
Thanks @Jagster
actually I would like to implement it for large forum, I just want to keep the place clean and everyone should see topics according their group selection.
I agree with this approach - one that this less rigid than the traditional binary access / no access.
It is often useful to have things freely accessible to those that dig for it, but only highly visible / notifying to a select group of people. This is pretty easy to initiate in Discourse, but hard to retract - I believe that this is what you are looking to do.
Users can of course do this themselves, but are generally pretty useless on that front.
Unfortunately, the Custom Wizard Plugin 🧙 requires user interaction to initiate stuff like that. An automation (likely bespoke) would be needed to remove the watching status of those that are no longer in a group.
Or this needs to be a feature request to alter the core behaviour. There are a few feature requests along these lines already.
What I Want to Achieve
I already did it with 
My Questions
Is there a built-in way (without coding or API calls) to mute a category when a user leaves a group?
Would it be possible to add “User Leaves Group” as a trigger in the Discourse Automations Plugin?
Any workarounds that don’t require manual admin intervention?
