# Is there a way to ensure certain topics are definitely included in the summary email?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [May 2, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705 "2019-05-02T17:32:27Z")
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### Author:  [@debryc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/debryc)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705/1 "2019-05-02T17:32:27Z")
Is there a way to ensure certain topics are definitely included in the summary email?
For example, I imagine that anything I pin globally, I’d like everyone to see!
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705/2 "2019-05-02T17:50:28Z")
Nope, however if you create and pin a banner topic every X days or weeks, any users that access the site in that time frame will see it, any user who does not visit the site in that time frame will see the topic in the summary email (if the user has the summary emails enabled).
In your case, if you want to send all the users the same email without distinction, you should use the newsletters. You could export all users in bulk from Discourse to extract their emails and use them to send regular newsletters to everyone.
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### Author:  [@debryc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/debryc)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705/3 "2019-05-02T17:55:17Z")
I’d like this behavior:
> [@dax](#):
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> If you create and pin a banner topic every X days or weeks, any users that access the site in that time frame will see it, any user who does not visit the site in that time frame will see the topic in the summary email (if the user has the summary emails enabled).
If I understand this correctly, newly pinned topics will definitely be included in summary emails, correct, regardless of whether they are “top” topics?
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705/4 "2019-05-02T18:04:23Z")
> [@debryc](#):
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> newly ~~pinned~~ topics will definitely be included in summary emai
Whether the topic is pinned or not, it doesn’t really matter, it must be just a new topic. You can also create a special category, say “Announcements” and insert it among the `default categories watching` in the site settings of the site. All **new users** will receive notifications related to that category and if they do not visit the site they will receive an email every time a topic is created in that category. You can also apply that setting to **all the users** via [https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-set-category-tracking-level-defaults-historically/53165/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-set-category-tracking-level-defaults-historically/53165/)
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### Author:  [@debryc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/debryc)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705/5 "2019-05-02T18:09:20Z")
What if we made Announcements a default Tracked category? How does that affect the summary emails?
I don’t want every user to receive an email every time a topic is created in Announcements, I just want people to see it in their summary digest.
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705/6 "2019-05-02T18:16:40Z")
> [@debryc](#):
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> I don’t want every user to receive an email every time a topic is created in Announcements
You can set the category in a way that only admins can create topics inside that category and no one else and the other users can only read them.
> [@debryc](#):
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> How does that affect the summary emails?
However if you want to send only the summary emails this setting is not for you, it does not affect the summary emails because in any case links of topics that are “New for you” are still sent, see
> [@Configuring Activity Summary emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-activity-summary-emails-guide/36627):
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> bookmark This guide explains how to configure and manage activity summary emails in Discourse, including user and admin options, customization, and troubleshooting. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Activity summary emails (formerly known as digest emails) are automated messages sent to forum members who haven’t visited in a specific period. These emails contain a collection of popular content since the user’s last visit, aiming to re-engage inactive members. Under…
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### Author:  [@debryc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/debryc)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705/7 "2019-05-03T01:09:51Z")
> [@dax](#):
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> You can set the category in a way that only admins can create topics inside that category and no one else and the other users can only read them.
Our Announcements category is already set to this.
I was asking about how Tracking affects the Summary email, and I’m still not clear on that. However, I’ll simply experiment with Tracking a category here and see what happens to my summary email.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705/8 "2019-05-03T02:22:07Z")
You can test the summary emails for any user and date at /admin / email /summary.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-ensure-certain-topics-are-definitely-included-in-the-summary-email/116705/9 "2022-08-24T02:19:25Z")