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User Watches

If a user wants to receive an e-mail when something is edited or when new articles or forum topics are added, they can create a watch.

A watch for new articles can be turned on and off in a user's MyTiki's "My Watches" page.

The user can click the click the little

eye that appears toward the top of many pages. The eye changes to

, indicating that you have set a Watch.

A Watch for a web page sends you the new page when it is edited, and any new comment when they are added to the page, and replies to those comments.
A Watch for a Forum tells you about new Topics. It does not notify you of replies.
A Watch on a Forum Topic sends you any future replies posted to that Topic. It does not notify you of new Topics or replies to the new Topics.

To turn off a watch, a user can either:

click on the open eye, which then closes, or
go to MyTiki's "My watches" page and delete any or all of your watches.

Some versions of the Tikiwiki documentation suggest that a watch does not report a change to a web page that has been designated as a "minor" change. That does not appear to be the case for Tikiwiki 1.9.2.

Which sections can be watched?

Feature name and link	Description	Watch item
Articles	Articles can be used for date-specific news and announcements. You can configure articles to automatically publish and expire at specific times or to require that submissions be approved before becoming "live." In addition to categories and tags, articles include their own unique classification system of Topics and Types.	yes (global)
Forum	Forums are online discussions organized by topic (or thread). Tiki forums feature threaded or flat views, file attachments, moderation and queuing, monitoring (subscription) of particular forums or topics, and full usage of wiki syntax.	yes (global and individual)
File Gallery	Computer files, videos or software for downloading. With check-in & check-out (lock)	yes (global)
Calendar	Events calendar with public, private and group channels	yes (individual)
Image Gallery	Collections of graphic images for viewing or downloading (photo album) Note: The Image gallery was deprecated in Tiki 4 in favor of the File Gallery.	yes (global)
Tracker	Facts and figures storage & retrieval. A forms & database generator, with reporting. Can be used for a bug tracker, item database, issue tracker, etc	yes (global and individual)
Wiki	Collaboratively authored documents with history of changes. Tiki's Wiki has all the features you could want from a first-rate wiki. Ex.: attach files, comments, history, images, warn on edit, page locking, powerful wiki syntax, etc	yes (global and individual)
Map	Navigable, interactive maps with user-selectable layers (requires mapserver)	yes (global and individual)
Structure	Create hierarchically organized breadcrumb navigation aids for Wiki pages, and also allow printing all pages in the structure and in the same order through an easier way than one by one.	yes (global and individual)
Blog	Online diaries or journals	yes (global and individual)

Starting in 2.0, a category can be watched, and thus you'll receive an email when things are added or removed from the category but also when items in the category are modified. This can be useful for TikiWiki as a Document Workflow or in Project Management.

Starting in 3.0, watches can be assigned to groups.