# Which category does "Make Public Topic" target?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-category-does-make-public-topic-target/73890>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Novembro 11, 2017, 10:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-category-does-make-public-topic-target/73890 "2017-11-11T10:07:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 14

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Hooksmith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hooksmith/32/142826_2.png) [@Hooksmith](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hooksmith)\
**Post date:** [Junho 16, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-category-does-make-public-topic-target/73890/14 "2019-06-16T18:08:49Z")

</div>

I’m also having this issue where I want to turn a private message into a topic in a private category, without wanting to trigger notifications / listing in Latest / sending emails.

I found that this workflow works for me:

- **Unlist** private message first
- Make Public Topic
- Re-categorize the topic
- Re-list the topic
- Delete admin messages

This will not trigger notifications or emails. It would be nice if you could pick a category when choosing Make Public Topic though – when I used this option, it went into a seemingly random category that I did not expect it to go to on our instance (since we have uncategorized disabled).

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-category-does-make-public-topic-target/73890)._