I want to stop chatter emails when I create ContentDocumentLink

Question

I'm uploading multiple files via the SOAP API in a nightly process. Part of that is assigning permissions to the files. I'm using ContentDocumentList to allow a user to see a document. When creating ContentDocumentList object, an e-mail gets sent. If a user has access to 50 new documents, he would get 50 e-mails messages.

I want to suppress the automatic e-mail messages, then I'll send one e-mail per person with a list of files that were updated.

Answer 1

I've used the following User object settings to turn off Chatter's emails. There are several of these kinds of fields in the User object....

u.UserPreferencesDisableAllFeedsEmail=true; u.UserPreferencesDisableFileShareNotificationsForApi=true;