Hi @phraisohn
I hope you’re well today and thank you for your question!
The category selection is a part of “post data” field which is quite a specific field (or rather a set of fields) and it can’t be used for e-mail routing and conditions settings.
Standard select field, however, can’t also be used to select categories for post creation as everything related to post creation must be done within the “post data” field (as the way the submission is handled internally is a bit different than with regular fields).
So out of the box it’s currently not possible to set it the way you want to, I’m afraid. It would require custom solution to trigger notifications separately (with a custom code) based on already submitted post category. It would have to be custom coded which, I’m afraid, goes a bit outside the scope of this support.
However, it might be possible to set a “workaround”. This plugin seems to be able to send such notifications based on user role:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsite-post-status-notifications/
If your “category officers” would use different user roles (you can use User Role Editor to duplicate roles under different names but with the same capabilities) and then assign notifications based on these roles.
I didn’t test it but it seems to be a possible workaround so may be worth a shot.
Kind regards,
Adam
hello @wpmudev-support8 ,
Thank you very much for your fast reply and the explanation. Yes, I understand the requirement is very out of the box and I am appreciated your help with the link 🙂
I will try and test it.
Your plugin is very helpful and saving time. Thank you again 🙂
Best regards,
Sohn
Hi @phraisohn
You are welcome, we are happy to hear you like the plugin.
Best Regards
Patrick Freitas
