Details
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Type:
New Feature
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Status: Closed
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 3.2.0-b1
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Fix Version/s: 5.11.0-b1
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
Description
This is just an idea at the moment, but under Email Templates we could add a section called: Email Layouts
Email Layouts would be well designed HTML structure files containing a header/footer with colors and logo, etc.. and the Email Template content would go inside a content area. I'm thinking of something similar to Campaign Monitor in terms of template designs.
Initially, we could ship without any existing designs but allow the following functionality:
- Create new Email templates. Paste in HTML, must include a tag for inserting the email template. When creating a template, you give it a name, and enter the HTML content, and we verify that the content contains the tag that we insert the email template into.
- Each email template would get an option to select an Email Template. By default, we should either allow no email template to be selected, or ship with a "Default" email template that either has no HTML besides the tag, or has a basic design we decide to ship with.
Activity
Just to note, this may require updating our template tags from a single brace to double brace, e.g.
{tag}to tag, which is the default for h2o anyway. The problem is that single tags interfere with inline CSS styles, which may be a problem.
Paul Phillips
added a comment - Just to note, this may require updating our template tags from a single brace to double brace, e.g.
{tag}
to tag , which is the default for h2o anyway. The problem is that single tags interfere with inline CSS styles, which may be a problem. Note also, Signatures are appended at the end of an email and when people hack together an html email now the signature ends up in a strange place. Double check that signatures are working properly. Maybe we need to add a signature tag within email templates to determine where they are inserted?
Paul Phillips
added a comment - Note also, Signatures are appended at the end of an email and when people hack together an html email now the signature ends up in a strange place. Double check that signatures are working properly. Maybe we need to add a signature tag within email templates to determine where they are inserted? As a note, we may be able to include or recommend an HTML template or create our own based on one like https://github.com/mailgun/transactional-email-templates?tab=readme-ov-file which is MIT licensed.
Paul Phillips
added a comment - As a note, we may be able to include or recommend an HTML template or create our own based on one like https://github.com/mailgun/transactional-email-templates?tab=readme-ov-file which is MIT licensed. 
We should consider looking at this again.