I’ve been looking at this topic as a way of updating the “Watching First Post” field for all the users: [image] Edit a user preference for everyone or a subset of users Self-Hosting bookmark This guide explains how to edit a user preference for everyone or a subset of users in Discourse. person_raising_hand Required user level: System Administrator warning Console access is required. If you need to update the user preference for all of your users or a large subset of users, you can do so via the rails console. Summary In this guide, you’ll learn: How to access the Rails console for making bulk changes Examples of modifying user preferences How to identify se… However I can’t work out which model/ column to change. This does not work: UserOption.update_all(watched_first_post_category_ids: '[5,6,7,8]') As watched_first_post_category_ids does not exist in the user_options table. I’ve had a poke around in the Discourse Github code but I’m new to Rails & not sure what I should be looking for. Could someone please give me the correct Rails Console command to change the “Watching First Post” field for all users?

I’m on my phone and can’t test but I think just remove the quotes from around the array.

This should be what you are looking for :slightly_smiling_face: [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 existing users when setting the default category tracking levels in their site settings: Add a category to one of the following site settings, then select the green checkbox button. [10%20PM] A modal window will pop up with the following options: [10%20PM] play_button The old way using the console

How to update Watched First Post Categories for all users?

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tshenry (Taylor) August 8, 2019, 6:43am 4

This should be what you are looking for

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How to update Watched First Post Categories for all users?

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