Be Inspired by our Rich Forum Notifications (+ a brief how-to!)
Want rich forum notification e-mails? You can either wait until Insided has built a tool for it later in 2018 or use the phrases tool to edit them right now!
Since the start of this year, the Telfort forum has professional looking notifications featuring its moderators.
"Activate your account" - desktop
"New reply" - desktop
"Reset your password" - mobile
Responsive design is an option.
1. Open a template you want to start from, like the one your marketing department uses to send Direct Mails.
2. Edit the HTML. Tip: use a tool like JSFiddle to check what the output is.
3. Go to the 'Phrases' section in the Control environment: URL: https:// companyname. insided .com /settings/translation/overview.
4. Search for 'mail' and check the entries in module 'Mail'.
5. The notifications we've updated are "mail.useractivation", "mail.useractivated", "passwordlink", "post_create", "topic_answered", "pm_create", "mail.user.mentioned.body", although a few more notifications are sent.
6. The subject lines of each notification is defined in a seperate phrase.
Disclaimer: right now, we're experiencing some issues in these notifications, which I've contacted support for. I'll update this topic when I've found ways to fix all issues so that you can have a smoother experience.
Also, there's currently no way to measure notification performance. This means that you can't show direct results apart from the look and feel to your company, which is a shame in my opinion. Please vote for my idea to fix this.
Since the start of this year, the Telfort forum has professional looking notifications featuring its moderators.
Examples
"Activate your account" - desktop
"New reply" - desktop
"Reset your password" - mobile
Responsive design is an option.
How to
Some HTML knowledge is required.1. Open a template you want to start from, like the one your marketing department uses to send Direct Mails.
2. Edit the HTML. Tip: use a tool like JSFiddle to check what the output is.
3. Go to the 'Phrases' section in the Control environment: URL: https:// companyname. insided .com /settings/translation/overview.
4. Search for 'mail' and check the entries in module 'Mail'.
5. The notifications we've updated are "mail.useractivation", "mail.useractivated", "passwordlink", "post_create", "topic_answered", "pm_create", "mail.user.mentioned.body", although a few more notifications are sent.
6. The subject lines of each notification is defined in a seperate phrase.
Disclaimer: right now, we're experiencing some issues in these notifications, which I've contacted support for. I'll update this topic when I've found ways to fix all issues so that you can have a smoother experience.
Also, there's currently no way to measure notification performance. This means that you can't show direct results apart from the look and feel to your company, which is a shame in my opinion. Please vote for my idea to fix this.