Dan Munns Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Hi all, When sending email to customers from Service Manager we have noticed that formatting is dropped. Is there a way around this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 @Dan Munns seems the service does not have a template to be used when sending email from requests... check the service configuration for this request type and see if is using an existing template... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 @Victor Ok so the template is set to Default(undefined). I am sure that this used to work though with the default template. (our users would be quick to point it out if they thought it looked less than brilliant, and my manager would be ever quicker than that.) I have created a new template and added the correct variable to show the text written by the analysts. (is there a way of removing the "emailto<emailaddress>" line from {{RequestLastActivity.H_content}}? Also what is the drop down menu for at the top of the templates window? No matter what I select (other than Requests) I get a really complicated looking error message.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 59 minutes ago, Dan Munns said: the template is set to Default(undefined) undefined... hmm... the default template on services is "RequestMessage" ... does this template exist in your instance? If not, any chance someone deleted it? 59 minutes ago, Dan Munns said: is there a way of removing the "emailto<emailaddress>" line from {{RequestLastActivity.H_content}} I know you can do SQL functions in ESP variables...like using SUBSTR and like... maybe something like this? 59 minutes ago, Dan Munns said: the drop down menu for at the top of the templates window? No matter what I select (other than Requests) I get a really complicated looking error message.... You can safely ignore this, only templates that work are "Requests". The intention was to have different template categories (the drop down list). These categories in their turn will make available specific contextual variables... like you have SLA, Team, Customer, etc. variables for "Requests" templates, you could have a different set of variables at disposal for template category, for example, "Services" or "Tasks" ... unfortunately, this was never implemented, not yet anyway, is still something on our "to do" list... however is not really nice to see the error so I'll ask internally... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 @Victor ‘Request Message’ is there but has been over written. Any chance you can revert it. And let me know who over wrote it? (As lon as it wasn’t me lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 5 hours ago, Victor said: the default template on services is "RequestMessage" I am looking at my statement and I must say is rubbish... because is not true! .. .well it is, in a way, but only because a particular application setting has "RequestMessage" configured as template... So, to make things clear and correct myself: on the service you can set an email template to be used when sending emails from requests raised against this service. You can choose any email template from the list however, there is an option to specify to use the "default" template for request messages: "Default (...)". This "default" template is set by this application setting: app.email.template.request.sendMessage. The default value for this application setting is "RequestMessage" template, and now you understand why I said my original statement is "sort of" true but not really... In your instance however it seems whatever value was set for app.email.template.request.sendMessage no longer exists and because of it does not exist it is automatically replaced with: undefined. EDIT: after a few tests it seems this (quote: automatically replaced with "undefined") is not true either, so all the below also becomes null... The value for the setting(s) is now "undefined" I have to find out how this happened...Need to have a more thorough look into this on Mon.So are you aware of anyone deleting any templates? Possibly the template configured in app.email.template.request.sendMessage was deleted by somebody by mistake? I'm afraid I can't tell what was the previous value for this setting... and is not the only "template" setting that has "undefined" value... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 @Victor Any update on this as now our work around is no longer working.... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 @Dan Munns ermm.. workaround? EDIT: Sorry, what exactly is not working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 @Victor After the default template stopped working (no formatting) I created a new template to use, but the variable has stopped working as it used to. I posted here also. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 @Dan Munns yeah the issue with the variable is being looked at, I have updated the other post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 @Victor Yeah I just saw it. Thanks. Any update on this issue though (the default template missing / undefined) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just now, Dan Munns said: Any update on this issue though (the default template missing / undefined) ... didn't look further yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 @Victor any update? I find the lack of formatting disturbing...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 @Dan Munns we are watching too much Star Wars... although I don't think there is such a thing as too much Star Wars! ... I must admit this thread slipped through my net... I'll have a look ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Thanks @Victor, I know you and your guys are busy. There's always a bigger fish... (prequel trilogy I know but still Star Wars...just) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 *sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 @Dan Munns something seriously not right with the templates/app settings in your instance... all the app settings for templates now point to an "undefined" template ?!? ... I know for a fact that at least for app.email.template.request.sendMessage we did set an existing template: RequestMessage... even for this app now is "undefined"... ?!? I asked dev team to look into this ASAP !!! EDIT: I have corrected the issue for the template used when sending emails from requests, so the formatting should be ok for this now, I will have to look and see if I can find out how this happened... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Hi @Victor The template you have set as default is currently in use as a custom template and therefore when sending emails from the instance the text you type is stuffed in the middle of the template. Now, I know (think) I didn't over write the template but I am thinking that if that was the template used to start with is may have caused the 'undefined' issue. Any chance of resetting the template back to sys default? EDIT: The text in green is what I send from the ticket, all other text is from the template set as default Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, Dan Munns said: Any chance of resetting the template back to sys default? @Dan Munns that's what I did... default system template for emails sent from requests is this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 @Victor the setting has been set back to the default template by name. The actual template has been edited by someone (not me) so is not longer the same and is causing issues. Please see edit above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 @Victor, No worries I have edited the template. I don't know why I just didn't do that in the first place. My brain is fried today....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 @Dan Munns no worries, my brain is not far to this point either ... I am still struggling to understand how your instance has all templates set to undefined in app settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 @Victor I think it was when the default template was changed. I am assuming that the ID of the template changed when it was saved and the instance was looking for a template which didn't exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 23 minutes ago, Dan Munns said: I think it was when the default template was changed. I am assuming that the ID of the template changed when it was saved and the instance was looking for a template which didn't exist. I am not saying this is not what happened but I will say that this should not happen... you can change and update any template anytime without this causing an udefined value in the app setting... also I am quite certain that you haven't changed ALL the templates... (as I mentioned above ALL the template app settings in your instance have an undefined value...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Munns Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Ahh ok. Not me then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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