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sarah_kiani
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July 16, 2018

Email Task without Playbook

  • July 16, 2018
  • 13 replies
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I was wondering if there is a way to create a CTA email task without adding a playbook to it. I don't see any option to associate an email to a task independently 

    13 replies

    rbegley
    Helper ⭐️⭐️
    July 16, 2018
    Unfortunately, an email assist has to be part of a playbook (as an individual task), and cannot be tied directly to the CTA itself. Hopefully this answers your question.
    sarah_kiani
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    July 16, 2018
    It does. Thanks for confirming, Rob!
    cameron_wright
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
    July 31, 2018
    It would be super useful if we added this functionality.
    Cameron Wright - Sr. Security Engineer
    alexa_rosen
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️
    July 31, 2018
    Thank you Cameron. Yes, being able to manually attach Email Assist tasks to CTAs is a feature our team would like to see Gainsight enable.
    aditya_marla
    Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    August 20, 2018
    Hi All,

    Thanks for sharing this. Is the ideal scenario being able to add an "email task" similar to how you can "add task" to a CTA?
    If so, would you be using any tokens (placeholders/surveys) in the email templates? Today the admin maps what the tokens should get resolved. If the CSM manually creates an email task...should they be left unresolved?.
    alexa_rosen
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️
    August 20, 2018
    Hi Aditya, that would be our use-case: being able to manually add email assist Tasks to CTAs. We are using tokens in our email template that were mapped by our Admin. Our team should be able to review them, before sending the email.
    jake_ellis
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
    August 20, 2018
    Hi Aditya,

    I think this would be a great functionality as well. It would provide improved user experience if we could both update CTA's with "email tasks" or update emails within the playbooks instead of recreating a playbook then reassigning them to the CTA.
    aditya_marla
    Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    August 21, 2018
    Hi Alexa,

    Today the token mapping is done within a playbook. So if we provide an option to add an "email task" and the CSM can choose an email template, then the tokens will not be resolved. (They will be more like placeholders & the CSM has to delete them and replace them with the appropriate values). Does that work?
    aditya_marla
    Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    August 21, 2018
    Hi Jake,

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. Could you provide some more details on this "update emails within the playbooks instead of recreating a playbook" (is it the ability to update an email template and it should automatically reflect in all the CTAs where the playbook has been used?)
    alexa_rosen
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️
    August 21, 2018
    How come the token mapping, done through Email Assist, would not be retained within the email Task on the CTA?