If a user wants to receive an email when content is added or edited—such as wiki pages, forum topics, or (almost) any other content — they can create a watch. Watches can also be set for group notifications.

For example, for the page Using Wiki Pages on this documentation site, a registered user can monitor it (i.e., add a "User Watch"):

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A user can manage watches on many Tiki objects (such as new articles) via the My Watches page under their My Account menu:
User menu > My Account > My Watches (tiki-user_watches.php).

The User Watches and Preferences page includes several tabs (depending on which features are enabled on the site):

1. Report preferences
   
   

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2. My Watches
   
   

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   • You can select an event type from a list, which varies depending on the enabled features and your permissions on the site.
     
     
     

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3. Notification Preferences
   Choose whether to receive notifications for your own changes. If unchecked, you will not receive notifications for changes you made.
   
   

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You can click the icon near the top of many pages (often in a dropdown menu or popup). Clicking it activates a watch and changes to (indicating that you have set a watch).

• Wiki page watch: Notifies you of edits and new comments/replies.
• Wiki structure watch: Notifies you when new pages are added to the structure.
• Wiki sub-structure watch: Notifies you when objects are added or removed in a sub-section and its descendants.
• Content category watch: Notifies you of objects added or removed in a Category.
• Category and descendants watch: Notifies you of changes in the category and all nested categories.
• Forum watch: Notifies of new topics only (not replies).
• Forum topic watch: Notifies of new replies in the thread. It does not notify you of new topics or replies to the new topics, unless you have subscribed also to that Forum.
• Forum topics and threads watch: Notifies of new topics and all replies.
• Calendar watch: Notifies you of added or edited events. (As of Tiki28 (2025), there is no way to watch all calendars at once.)
  • Note:
    If you have multiple calendars, deselect all but one to see the watch icon for a specific calendar.
• And similarly, for all the other Tiki objects that accept "User Watches" . See below the table listing all Tiki objects accepting them.

• a "group watch" on a structure (to force one or several groups of users to watch for changes on the Structure of wiki pages where that wiki page belongs to).
• a "group watch" on a category (to force one or several groups of users to watch for changes on the category of objects).
• a "group watch" on a forum (to force one or several groups of users to watch for all topics of this forum), or
• a "group watch" on a forum topic and threads (to force one or several groups of users to watch for all topics and all their replies of that forum).
• a "group watch" on a calendar sends you information of the new events added or edited in that specific calendar. As of Tiki10 (2012) there is no way yet to watch all calendars at once.
  • Note about Calendar Watches:
    Please note that if you have more than one calendar created in your site, you have to deselect all calendars except one (from the list of viewable calendars to be displayed) so that you can see the icon to group watch that single Calendar.
• And similarly, for all the other Tiki objects that accept "Group Watches" . See, below, the table listing all Tiki objects accepting them.

To turn off a user watch, a user can either:

1. Click the "stop-monitoring" icon . It will change to indicate the page is no longer watched.
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2. Or, go to My Watches and delete the desired entries.
   
   
   

• Ask a site admin to remove you from the group.
• Or, request the group watch to be reconsidered—users may prefer setting their own watches now that the feature is widely understood.

You will receive notifications when items are: Added to or removed from a category, but also when items in the category are modified. This can be useful for Tiki as a Document Workflow or in Project Management.

Watches can also be applied to groups, so all members receive notifications.

To activate or deactivate watches:
You must go to Settings-> Control Panels -> Global Setup -> Features, and under Global features tab, scroll down to Watches feature and check/uncheck User Watches and/or Group watches.

• Mail notifications for admins
• Forum User
• Categories
• Structures
• Group Watches
• Group Alert
• Daily reports

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