SID-00843: How to disable webnotify for one topic but not rest of web?

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Hi,

How do you disable automatic emails being sent for just one topic but enable automatic emails for all other topics in a web?

I have created a Topic called 'DraftTopic' and added a child topic called 'TestOne'. The idea is that when a user creates a topic which they dont want immediately visible to all users on the web (i.e the topic is a 'draft') then they can create it as a child of 'DraftTopic' (which has email notificatiosn disabled) when the have finished created the topic they can change the topic parent to point to the correct topic and the 'topic changed' automatic email notification is sent out.

I have read the doucmentation and so far I have tried the different combinations below, for every combination NO Emails are sent to the user even though updates have been made to pages other then 'DraftTopic':

• User - some.user@somePLEASENOSPAM.madeup.email : - DraftTopic
• User - some.user@somePLEASENOSPAM.madeup.email : - DraftTopic (1)
• User - some.user@somePLEASENOSPAM.madeup.email : - Test*

• User - some.user@somePLEASENOSPAM.madeup.email : Web* - DraftTopic
• User - some.user@somePLEASENOSPAM.madeup.email : Web* - DraftTopic (1)
• User - some.user@somePLEASENOSPAM.madeup.email : Web* - Test*

How do I disable auto emails for the 'DraftTopic' only?

Thanks

-- BobPowerade - 2010-05-19

Discussion and Answer

From the docs at Plugins.MailerContrib it looks like this might work:

• SomeUser: * - DraftTopic(1)

E.g., notify on all topics except the children of DraftTopic. However, I am not sure if the notify child feature is implemented that way for exclude in the same way it does for include. If you feel like you discovered a bug you can file a bug report, see link in sidebar/topbar.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-05-19

Hey Peter,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I tried:

• User1 - some.user1@somePLEASENOSPAM.madeup.email : * - DraftTopic
• User2 - some.user2@somePLEASENOSPAM.madeup.emailz : * - DraftTopic(1)
• User3 - some.user3@somePLEASENOSPAM.madeup.email : * - Test*

and still NONE of the users received any emails from the Twiki (other topics besides DraftTopic and Test were changed).

Is there something in the syntax - did I get the spaces correct?

Cheers

-- BobPowerade - 2010-05-20

Try with just e-mail address, e.g. without UserX.

However I think you are out of luck, the software does not seem to work the same for "-" as it does for the inclusive. You can debug and fix, or lobby/pay someone to do it for you.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-05-20

Thanks Peter,

It looks like removing the user-name works.

So something like this will work: some.user2@somePLEASENOSPAMPLEASENOSPAM.madeup.emailz : * - DraftTopic(1)

Thanks for your help Peter.

Bob

-- BobPowerade - 2010-05-24

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