# Trigger notifications on scheduled category change but not on manual ones

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-notifications-on-scheduled-category-change-but-not-on-manual-ones/273931
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 4, 2023, 7:59am 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: [August 4, 2023, 10:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-notifications-on-scheduled-category-change-but-not-on-manual-ones/273931/3 "2023-08-04T10:32:25Z")

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> [@david](#):
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> it didn’t actually change any behaviour

It might have been a later change. All I know is that notifications were being generated on July 31 but not on August 1.

> [@david](#):
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> The other case to consider here is ‘publishing’ topics from a PM or from shared drafts. So I don’t think ‘with a timer’ is necessarily the best way to separate it

Agreed. 👍

> [@david](#):
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> Is this kind of cleanup always done via the ‘bulk’ tools? If so… perhaps we’d be better off removing the site settings and having a checkbox available on bulk actions like “skip notifications for this category change”

I think that’s the direction that’s being explored:

> [@Bulk editing topic categories should not trigger thousands of email notifications](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-editing-topic-categories-should-not-trigger-thousands-of-email-notifications/265269/6):
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> You are about to change categories on 1293 topics which will notify 8000 people watching the #new::tag category, Would you like to notify them?

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