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Disabling Notifications

Posted August 24th, 2007 by Jim Sneeringer
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Is there a way to disable notification temporarily for a part of the community, preferably with one notice being sent when it is turned back on?

This would be very useful at times when a lot of editing is going on, such as with the Terminology Standards or Design Patterns, where there are lots of subtopics to one topic. Also, it would help when

  • you need to repeatedly edit something, because the preview features doesn't work well at all if there are graphics (which don't seem to show at all in previews),
  • there are links that must be tested,
  • global terminology or format changes are needed, or
  • you are creating a longer post that don't fully show in the preview.
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Disabling notifications - Publication Options

On August 24th, 2007 Mary Connor says:

I think by playing with the Publication Options on a given page you can achieve disabling -- trick will be remembering to fully Publish it when it's cooked.

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Can find Publication Options

On August 24th, 2007 Jim Sneeringer says:

Probably I don't have the right permissions.

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Permissions for Publication options

On August 27th, 2007 Mary Connor says:

I bumped you up in privileges -- try now?

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Published option

On August 28th, 2007 Jim Sneeringer says:

Thanks. I think it must be the Published option.

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Published option not so good

On August 29th, 2007 Jim Sneeringer says:

The "Published" option doesn't seem to be that useful, except for new content. If you unpublish something that's already there, it does not keep the old version, but make the content inaccessible to everyone but you, which is not very desirable when you just want to delay notifications.

Perhaps one of the other options (In moderation queue, Promoted to front page, Sticky at top of lists, Create new revision) will do it, but they don't appear to.

The good news is that I ran across a post that seems to say that notification of changes is not given immediately, but delayed for 6 hours. Presumably multiple notifications are consolidated. If this is correct, repeated edits may not inflict as much pain on subscribers as I thought.

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