Shared drafts are not Watched

[Chandra]

@JammyDodger

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.

Yes, worked only for 1 email of ~8000. Not sure what was special about this id

@JammyDodger

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:

I don’t have data-explorer installed but can try at next build.

Here are additional thoughts on what I think is the issue:

1. Email sending to all works correctly in the same category for new direct (non shared-draft) topics. I will try to capture screenshots for that as well. So, the watch for all on the category should be good.

2. I also noted notification emails are sent out to Staff email ids right at the first save. I believe this means the topic is triggering off the notification process right at first save and not after completion of multiple staff edits and actual ‘publish’. At the point of first save, the topic is in staff category and hence only staff members get notified.

3. If shared drafts category is set to a non-staff category, I suspect this may email out incomplete posts to all watching members of the shared drafts category instead of the destination category.