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Watchers Being Added Automatically
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Samantha Gordanier
I've been making tasks and without any sort of automation in place, one person on my team keeps being added to every new task as a watcher. She's not assigned to the task, she hasn't altered anything, why is this happening?
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Brent Evans
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Hey everyone!
It sounds like these user's may have selected the option to 'notify and watch all new tasks' in their notification settings. Could you please check whether this option is enabled right now?
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Samantha Gordanier
@Brent Evans: This solved it, thank you!
Michael Sean Brown
@Brent Evans: Thank you. I was hoping this was going to solve the matter. I'm still holding out that it is STILL automatically adding me as a Watcher because I CREATED the Task, I'm checking to see if the other Member's account has this setting.
Michael Sean Brown
@Brent Evans: That did work for the Member that was being added to every Task.
Now I am the only person that is automatically added as a Watcher when I create a Task. That is MUCH better. It seems that the CREATOR of a Task is automatically added as a Watcher regardless of this setting.
I am assigning tasks for many departments. I don't want to watch the Tasks I'm creating, there are other supervisors who can/should do that. I definitely would like the ability to NOT automatically add the Task Creator as a Watcher to the Task.
Thanks for this tip!
Michael Sean Brown
This is driving me nuts, too. There's a "Feature Request" from January 2019 that reported this and it still hasn't been fixed.
Interestingly, they HAVE added a new feature "Always Add Assignees" and "Always Add Watchers" to Folders and Spaces but setting those does not prevent the other people from still being added.
It's great to have the new feature but addressing the Bug should have come first.