Is there any way users could subscribe to forum containers instead of all forum posts?

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roball commented
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Subscribing

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BetaTheta commented

I just figured out how to do this. I forgot, but forum containers are just taxonomy terms. So by enabling subscriptions to forum tags, you're in fact enabling subscriptions to forum containers.

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roball commented
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Did you try to setup a custom subscription to all forums within a forum container, as shown in the attached screenshot? I have 8 forums in one container, thus added all their 8 names (= taxonomy terms) separately and subscribed some people to it. However, nobody gets a notification mail when someone post in one of these forums :-( Does this work for you?

The custom subscription only worked for me when set to the content type "Forum topic", but subscribing to all nodes of a node type is not desirable.

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BetaTheta commented

I haven't tried out custom subscriptions yet. Here's what I did:
- I enabled the taxonomy notifications module
- I went to subscription settings -> content subscriptions and I enabled tags. I then chose forums as an allowed vocabulary

I'm going to check and see if taxonomy subscriptions work (haven't tested it yet), but I'd be surprised if it didn't. This module seems very well kep and I believe the taxonomy notifications module is included in the actual notifications module.

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BetaTheta commented

Oh wait, sorry, I think I might have misunderstood you. I should've been more clear in my initial post. So I was trying to figure out how to subscribe to, e.g. in your case, containers such as Management and Quality Plan. But I didn't realize you can't subscribe to bigger containers such as ISEKI Forums.

I'll look into custom notifications and let you know if it works for me.

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BetaTheta commented

Ok, so I found a way to subscribe to e.g. ISEKI forums. Go to www.yoursite.com/?q=user/%/notifications/taxonomy. You should see all forums there and you can even subscribe to containers that contain other containers

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roball commented

Janam, user/1/notifications/taxonomy gives me "Access Denied" - only user/1/notifications/add/taxonomy works for me. Anyway, even if you are subscribing to the taxonomy term of a forum container, it does not seem to actually trigger notifications on updates to forums under it. The only taxonomy term that seems to work is a single forum, but neither more than one forum nor a forum container.

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jose reyero commented
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See #516074: Subscribing to specific Forums