# Shared drafts are not Watched

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-are-not-watched/242577>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** shared-drafts\
**Created:** [October 21, 2022, 10:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-are-not-watched/242577 "2022-10-21T10:23:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-are-not-watched/242577/11 "2022-11-13T07:53:34Z")

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Having a quick look over your PM, it seems like at least one email was sent out as ‘Watching First Post’ for that shared draft, which suggests that it’s working.

In your notes, you refer to setting that category notification as a default for your users, but are you sure the default has been applied correctly? If you have the data-explorer installed, you could run a query to check your users’ category notification level for that category to make sure that they’re set as you expect:

(‘4’ is the code for ‘Watching First Post’, ‘3’ for ‘Watching’)

```sql
-- [params]
-- int :category_id

SELECT cu.user_id,
       cu.notification_level
FROM category_users cu
WHERE category_id = :category_id
ORDER BY cu.notification_level DESC

```

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