Configure email templates

Last update: February 7, 2025

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  • Admin

As an Adobe Workfront administrator, you can configure email templates to support reminder notifications.

Email templates contain the message sent to users when a reminder notification is initiated.
Without an email template, the reminder notification will be delivered as empty content in the body of the email.

Email templates can be associated with reminder notifications for issues, tasks, projects, and timesheets. When creating email templates, your Workfront administrator can provide content for the email and a subject line.

Access requirements

Expand to view access requirements for the functionality in this article.

You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

Adobe Workfront planAny
Adobe Workfront license*

New: Standard

Or

Current: Plan

Access level configurationSystem administrator

*For more information about access requirements, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Create an email template

  1. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-left corner, then click Setup Setup icon .

  2. In the left panel, click Email > Notifications> Email Templates.

    Email templates tab

  3. Click New Email Template.

  4. In the New Email Template box, specify the following information:

    NameAdd a title for the email template. This is a required field.
    Object type

    Specify the object type that you want to associate the template with. Choose from the following objects:

    • Project
    • Task
    • Issue
    • Timesheet

    This is a required field and it is set to Project, by default.

    DescriptionAdd more information about the email template, its purpose, and intended audience.
    SubjectAdd the text that displays in the Subject line of the email, when the email message generated by the template is sent. This is a required field.
    Body

    Add the text for the content of the email message.

    You can use HTML formatting for the email content, as described in the section Add HTML formatting to an email template in this article.

  5. Click Save.

Add HTML formatting to an email template

You can add HTML tags to email templates to produce custom notifications.
Begin creating the email template as described in Create a new email template.

HTML formatting can enrich your email templates, as shown in the following sections.

You can include links to Workfront fields by using the $$ wildcard to tell the email generator to look for values from the database associated with a specific object.

For example, the body of the email for a notification alerting the assignee of the task that the task is about to start can follow this structure:

<html>
<p>$$assignedTo:firstName$$</p>
<p>You are assigned to work on <b><a href="https://<your domain>.my.workfront.com/task/view?ID=$$ID$$">$$name$$</a></b>, which is due to start on $$plannedStartDate$$.</p>
<table width="350" style="font-size:12px;">
<tr>
<td><b><strong>HEADING</b></td>
<td>$$WILDCARD$$</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>HEADING</b></td>
<td>$$WILDCARD$$</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>HEADING</b></td>
<td>$$WILDCARD$$</td></tr>
</table>
</html>

To get the “wildcard” value for an object, do one of the following:

  • Refer to the API Explorer and select the names of your objects from the Fields tab of any object. For more information about the API Explorer, see API Explorer.

  • Use the valuefield value you find inside of a text mode view of a report. For more information about text mode values, see Text Mode overview.

The heading value can be the name of the object, as you want it to appear in the email body.

You can include links to users and custom fields by using the $$ wildcard to tell the email generator to look for values from the database associated with the object. They must be present on either side of the database attribute reference.

For example, adding the following text as HTML would add the assigned user’s first name to the reminder notification associated with a task:

assignedTo:firstName

To add custom fields using the same formatting, you can add the following in your email notification:

DE:Custom Field As It Appears in Workfront

For example, this is an email template which includes a reference to a custom field named Delivery Date, and it’s assuming that the field Delivery Date belongs to a task.

Replace <your domain> with your company’s Workfront domain, without the brackets:

<html>
<p>$$assignedTo:firstName$$</p>
<p>You are assigned to work on <b><a href="https://<your domain>.my.workfront.com/task/view?ID=$$ID$$">$$name$$</a></b>, which has a Delivery Date of $$DE:Task:Delivery Date$$.</p>
<table width="350" style="font-size:12px;">
<tr>
<td><b>Project Name:</b></td>
<td>$$project:name$$</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Description:</b></td>
<td>$$description$$</td>
<tr>
<td><b>Estimated Effort:</b></td>
<td>$$work$$ hours</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Planned Completion Date:</b></td>
<td>$$plannedCompletionDate$$</td>
<td><b>Delivery Date:</b></td>
<td>$$DE:Task:Delivery Date$$</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>
NOTE
If the field belongs to a project, replace task with project:
DE:Project:Delivery Date

HTML email examples

Late Project reminder notification (example)

To edit an email template for a late project reminder, consider this information for the Subject and Content fields.

Replace <your domain> with your company’s Workfront domain, without the brackets.

Subject:

A Project You Manage Has Become Late

Content:

<html>
<p>The <b><a href="https://<your domain>.my.workfront.com/project/view?ID=$$ID$$">$$name$$</a></b> project you are assigned as the owner of just became late.</p>
<table width="350" style="font-size:12px;">
<tr>
<td><b>Project Name:</b></td>
<td>$$project:name$$</td>
</tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Planned Completion Date:</b></td>
<td>$$plannedCompletionDate$$</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Please review the task plan and bring it up to date to reflect the progress made so far. If it is necessary to update the plan to bring it reflect reality going forward, be sure to speak to $$sponsor:name$$ for approval before make these changes to the work breakdown structure.</p>
</html>

This produces an email similar to the following:

Project became late email

Task or Issue About to Start reminder

You might also want to create a reminder notification for an upcoming task or issue.

The following code can be included in an email template to be used for task and issue reminder notifications that are sent any number of days before the planned start date of the task or issue.

Replace <your domain> with your company’s Workfront domain, without the brackets.

To use this for an Issue email, change the /task/view. value in the link to the work item to /issue/view.

Subject:

$$name$$ to start on $$plannedStartDate$$

Content:

<html>
<p>$$assignedTo:firstName$$</p>
<p>You are assigned to work on <b><ahref=https://<your domain>.my.workfront.com/task/view?ID=$$ID$$">$$name$$</a></b>, which is due to start on $$plannedStartDate$$.</p>
<tablewidth=350"style=font-size:12px;">
<tr>
<td><b>Task Name:</b></td>
<td>$$name$$</td>
</tr>
<td><b>Project Name:</b></td>
<td>$$project:name$$</td>
</tr>
</tr>
<td><b>Created on:</b></td>
<td>$$entryDate$$</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Project Manager:</b></td>
<td>$$project:owner:name$$</td>
<tr>
<td><b>Priority:</b></td>
<td>$$priority$$</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Who is assigned to:</b></td>
<td>$$assignedTo:name$$</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>When it's due:</b></td>
<td>$$estCompletionDate$$</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>

email_template_delivered.png

After an email template is created, users can associate it with reminder notifications, as described in Set up reminder notifications.

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