# Meldingen activeren bij geplande categorie wijziging maar niet bij handmatige

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-notifications-on-scheduled-category-change-but-not-on-manual-ones/273931
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [4 augustus 2023 om 07:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-notifications-on-scheduled-category-change-but-not-on-manual-ones/273931 "2023-08-04T07:59:05Z")
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### Author: ![Nacho\_Caballero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nacho_caballero/32/130189_2.png) [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [4 augustus 2023 om 07:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-notifications-on-scheduled-category-change-but-not-on-manual-ones/273931/1 "2023-08-04T07:59:05Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Published/Scheduled Posts 'Watching First Post' notifications not being triggered](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-scheduled-posts-watching-first-post-notifications-not-being-triggered/273849/8):

Enabling the `disable category edit notifications` setting prevents ‘Watching/Watching First Post’ notifications from being created when a topic is manually re-categorized.

This is very useful when cleaning up old topics and prevents the [avalanche](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-prevent-notifications-for-post-merges-moves/23796/18) of [emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-editing-topic-categories-should-not-trigger-thousands-of-email-notifications/265269/1) that was common before this setting was implemented.

However, after a recent change in beta8, having that setting enabled now means that publishing (re-categorizing) a topic with a timer will not trigger any notifications to people who are watching that category.

It would be good to separate those two behaviors when the `disable category/tag edit notifications` setting is enabled:

- changing category/tag **manually doesn’t trigger notifications**
- changing category/tag **with a timer does trigger notifications**

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