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meenal_shukla
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
May 31, 2019
New Idea

The 2 MB attachment limit on Email Assist is very limiting.

  • May 31, 2019
  • 22 replies
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Although the total size of the attachments can be 10 MB in an Email Assist, each attachment cannot cross 2MB. This limit is too small for any pptx/ppt type of documents that tend to be very common artifacts one shares with their customers.

Can product consider increasing the limit? Anyone else feeling the pinch?

    22 replies

    Helper ⭐️
    June 3, 2019
    Hi Meenal,

    We are analyzing this as discussed. I'll keep you posted. Changing it to idea post. Thanks! 

    meenal_shukla
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
    June 6, 2019
    Thanks Piyush and team!

    Outplay. Outwit. Outlast.
    bfoley
    Contributor ⭐️
    August 21, 2019
    We're encountering struggles with this now with one of our brands as well. How is this looking in terms of increasing the size limit?

    davebrown2242
    Helper ⭐️
    June 17, 2020

    Hi All,

     

    After developing standardized playbooks I found I am going to have to scrap most of the Email tasks due to this limitation. A CSR or Business Review deck can be 30-60 slides that compress to a 2-5MB file. Not being able to send this as an attachment renders the Email Assist functionality useless.

     

    Please consider removing the Per Attachment limitation of 2 MB. I acknowledge that there should be an overall limit of 10MB, but not a per attachment limit.

    DB
    davebrown2242
    Helper ⭐️
    June 17, 2020

    @dan_ahrens 

    DB
    Expert ⭐️
    June 18, 2020

    Hello All,

    I saw this post recently, i will update you all about the analysis details in a week.

    davebrown2242
    Helper ⭐️
    June 18, 2020

    @chethana — Thank you.  2MB is a very limited limit.  I get a limit of 5 attachments; total of 10MB (which is also frugal to a degree).  To note, when a Customer Success Review PowerPoint Deck is converted to a PDF post CSR meeting we end up with an average file size of 1.8MB - 3.7MB based on complexity. I could assume that others have similar needs.

    We want to leverage Email Assist in our Playbooks.  Today I have a copy/paste email template in the task description to use in Outlook. Not ideal & and bad look on my best practice recommendation.  

    Just wanted to say it in case it needed to be stated.  

    Thanks,

    DB

    DB
    davebrown2242
    Helper ⭐️
    July 1, 2020

    Any idea on estimates on this one…. 

    We are about to pull Email Assist out of our playbook designs…. 

    Any updates on the ability properly to utilize the documented 10MB limit would be helpful in keeping our email template work in production. 

    DB
    Expert ⭐️
    July 9, 2020

    Hello @davebrown2242 

    We are checking some options to support this. i will keep you posted about the details.

    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    July 15, 2020

    @chethana hello, we are also struggling with the Email Assist size limit and may need to scrap some CTAs due to this limitation. For ex. Once a deal is moved to closed won my team is responsible for the initial setup of the customers account which includes sending details on the customer and contract to our services team. From there, our services team assigns an implementation lead and sends a welcome email to the client with times for a kickoff call. I created a ‘New Client Setup’ CTA and Playbook for this process. Using the email assist and tokens I was able to automate a lot of the details my team sends to our services - which was a huge win and timesaver. However, in many cases Gainsight will not allow us to attach the contract due to the size limit. Before I scrap the this process I was hoping to get an update on increasing the attachment size.