Configure email templates
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
You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:
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| Adobe Workfront plan | Any |
| Adobe Workfront license* |
New: Standard Or Current: Plan |
| Access level configuration | System administrator |
*For more information about access requirements, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.
Create an email template create-an-email-template
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Click the Main Menu icon
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In the left panel, click Email > Notifications> Email Templates.
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Click New Email Template.
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In the New Email Template box, specify the following information:
table 0-row-2 1-row-2 2-row-2 3-row-2 4-row-2 layout-auto html-authored no-header Name Add 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.
Description Add more information about the email template, its purpose, and intended audience. Subject Add 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.
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Click Save.
Add HTML formatting to an email template 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.
Link to Workfront objects link-to-workfront-objects
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$$</td></tr>
</table>
</html>
To get the “wildcard” value for an object, do one of the following:
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Refer to the API Explorer and select the names of your objects from the Fields tab of any object. For more information about the API Explorer, see API Explorer.
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Use the
valuefieldvalue you find inside of a text mode view of a report. For more information about text mode values, see Text Mode overview.
The heading value can be the name of the object, as you want it to appear in the email body.
Link to custom fields with HTML link-to-custom-fields-with-html
You can include links to users and custom fields by using the $$ 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>
DE:Project:Delivery DateHTML email examples html-email-examples
Late Project reminder notification (example) 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:
Task or Issue About to Start reminder task-or-issue-about-to-start-reminder-example
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>
After an email template is created, users can associate it with reminder notifications, as described in Set up reminder notifications.