Advanced E-Mail Template

Daniel Boekhoff shared this idea 6 years ago
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The current E-Mail template configuration is good, but not enough for most of our customers. We would like to have a really simple template we could write in HTML on our own, then add placeholders like __name__ or __report_html_content__ etc. to let Yellowfin fill it with all the dynamic parts.

The advantage is we could reduce all the Titles, Subtitles in the email to a minimum. We could add different links to help content, to Yellowfin, etc. We would have more power to create a more Device flexible good looking email.

I talked with Peter and Brett about this today and Peter suggested to make this functionality accessible by using a flag in the configuration database, so there would be no user interface to configure this. This can all be pure code based.

In a perfect scenario we would be able to create different templates for report broadcasts, Dashboard Sharing, etc. — but in a first step one Global template would be enough.

Many Thanks & Kind Regards,

Daniel

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The current E-Mail template configuration is good, but not enough for most of our customers. We would like to have a really simple template we could write in HTML on our own, then add placeholders like __name__ or __report_html_content__ etc. to let Yellowfin fill it with all the dynamic parts.

The advantage is we could reduce all the Titles, Subtitles in the email to a minimum. We could add different links to help content, to Yellowfin, etc. We would have more power to create a more Device flexible good looking email.

I talked with Peter and Brett about this today and Peter suggested to make this functionality accessible by using a flag in the configuration database, so there would be no user interface to configure this. This can all be pure code based.

In a perfect scenario we would be able to create different templates for report broadcasts, Dashboard Sharing, etc. — but in a first step one Global template would be enough.

Many Thanks & Kind Regards,

Daniel

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Hi Daniel,


Thanks for the feedback and detailed info as to what you're after.

I know the email template is quite simple at this point in time, and was done so that people were limited in what they could break, though we can see the benefit in allowing more control.


This has been logged as an official enhancement and will need to be reviewed by the product team, any updates will be posted here.

I understand this is quite important and will aim to get you some information over the next 2 weeks.

One thing to note though, is that enhancements are included in the latest release only, so if it was to be implemented today, it would be the latest 7.3 only.


We will keep you posted on news.

Thanks

David

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Hi David,


What is the latest update on this? Is it really difficult to provide an option to customize the email template?

Please check these tickets as well:

https://www.yellowfinbi.com/resources/forum/YFForum-Is-there-a-way-to-send-a-formatted-message-in-a-broadcast-thread-141467


https://www.yellowfinbi.com/resources/forum/yfforum-change-email-template-thread-164568

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Hi Pushpal,

I hope all is well,

From what I can see we have no further movement on having a more "advanced/custom" email template. As it stands we only have the options available with what you are aware of...

I have added your comments to the Enhancement Request, although I can't confirm anything else with regards to when this will be looked at.

Let me know your views on this.

Regards,

Mark

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Hi Mark,

Is there any progress on this request?

Regards,

Bharath

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Hi Bharath,

I hope all is well,

Unfortunately no movement as of yet, however I have chased this up with our development team.

Regards,

Mark

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Hi Mark,

Is there any progress on this?

Thanks

Kalaiselvan

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Hi Kalaiselvan,

I hope all is well,

Unfortunately not, this has been raised by a number of different clients now, so the push to get this looked at would be the way forward for us now. I have made some notes in the ticket that we have with our development team, so hopefully going forward we can finally get this addressed.

Regards,

Mark

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Hi Mark,


Hope you are well.

Is there any movement on this?


Kind regards,

Mikayla

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Hi Mikayla,

I hope all is well,

No movement on this as of yet, although I have questioned this with our development team. I am hoping to have some feedback within the next 24 hours, so I will keep you updated.

Regards,

Mark

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Hi Mikayla,

I hope all is well,

Just to update you, this has since been discussed with the wider team and we are currently looking into what options we have. I will continue to update you where I can, however please feel free to question updates on this anytime.

Regards,

Mark

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Hi Mark,


Hope you are well.

Thanks for the feedback, look forward to hearing what the outcome of this is.


Kind regards,

Mikayla

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