# How to bulk update user's category notification level?

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**Created:** [January 12, 2022, 3:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-bulk-update-users-category-notification-level/214603 "2022-01-12T03:31:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-bulk-update-users-category-notification-level/214603/7 "2022-01-13T05:00:27Z")

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As I understand it, the group setting just gets applied when a user joins the group. So one approach to adjust this is to create a group with the settings you want to change and add the people you want changed to that group.

You can also do this with the API.

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