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How to create Email Templates

Streamline communication with pre-designed emails

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Written by Alex Hom
Updated over 2 months ago

Projects may have many different simultaneous processes that require consistent and reliable communication to progress or inform. Email templates allow users to directly reference information stored within Workflow into a customizable format.

Creating an Email Template

  1. Click on Add Email Template

  2. Input a Name

  3. Input a Description

  4. Source

    1. Select which document the email will pertain to

  5. Type

    1. Select the document type that the email pertains to

  6. Click Create Email Template to save the entry

Customizing an Email Template

  1. Click on the icon or hyperlinked name of a created Email Template

    1. Alternatively, click on the row of a Task Type to open its quick details

      1. Click on See All Settings

  2. Subject Line

  3. Body (WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor)

  4. Click Save Changes

Utilizing Fields

Information stored within Workflow can be referenced within an Email Template. Emails that use these fields will display the values of the fields to their recipients, dictated by the data stored at the time the email is sent.

Email templates for job types will contain all fields used within the job type. Task Type email templates will contain fields being used in the task as well as fields used within the Task Type’s Job Type. Both configurations will allow a default set of fields to reference called System Fields.

  1. Search for a Field via its Field Label

    1. Alternatively, scroll through the list of available fields

  2. Click on the row of a Field

    1. This will copy the field’s signature

  3. Paste the signature into the body of the email template

    1. Field signatures are written as the Field Label within two curly braces “{{ }}” and start with the Source of the field.

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