# Policy reminder cannot be left empty

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/policy-reminder-cannot-be-left-empty/365687
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** policy, fixed
**Created:** [May 12, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/policy-reminder-cannot-be-left-empty/365687 "2025-05-12T07:43:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/policy-reminder-cannot-be-left-empty/365687/1 "2025-05-12T07:43:21Z")

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> [@Discourse Policy](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-policy/88557/1):
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> The `[policy]` element can accept the following attributes.
> 
> (…)
> 
> - reminder: remind users of the group to accept policy (weekly or daily), optional, default off

However, when the policy is created using the popup modal, it cannot be left empty.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/a/9/ba9d151b464a6859c16b758b4c80c3e17a0b0b0a.png)

Attempting to manually remove the reminder by editing the bbCode and removing the `reminder` attribute does not work. Worse even, sometimes that results in the bbCode being unparsed, and reverting it will create a policy with a new ID, effectively wiping the list of users who accepted it.

The reminder can be left empty when the policy is _created_ using bbCode.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/policy-reminder-cannot-be-left-empty/365687/2 "2025-05-14T06:26:20Z")

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Oh, looks like we need a “reminder: none” option in the UI

Happy to put a #pr-welcome on this for now and alert the member xp team on this.

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### Author: ![yuriy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/yuriy/32/498097_2.png) [@yuriy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yuriy)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2025, 5:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/policy-reminder-cannot-be-left-empty/365687/5 "2025-06-17T05:34:22Z")

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@RGJ, we added _(No remider)_ option, which is preselected by default.

The related code changes were made in [FIX: policy-builder: adds "(No reminder)" option by yuriyaran · Pull Request #168 · discourse/discourse-policy · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-policy/pull/168).

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### Author: ![yuriy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/yuriy/32/498097_2.png) [@yuriy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yuriy)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/policy-reminder-cannot-be-left-empty/365687/7 "2025-06-19T06:34:45Z")

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