E-mail Templates

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You can customize the invitation and reminder e-mails to your corporate style. This is done through an e-mail template.

The e-mail template can be any HTML file. However, the MDS needs to know where in the template the invitation body should be merged. For this, it is required to specify a special tag named <MyEmailBody> within the template body. When the MDS finds this tag within the email template, it replaces this with the actual invitation/reminder created in MPM, just before sending out the emails. To add this tag in the email template, use the following steps:

a.

Open the HTML template file using any standard HTML editor

b.

Locate the position where you want the email body to be placed

c.

Type <MyEmailBody> (if you modify the HTML file using a text editor, you should use &lt;MyEmailBody&gt; instead of <MyEmailBody>).

d.

Save the file

Any image, clipart or other files required by the template should be placed on a web server which is accessible by the respondent.

You place the finished e-mail template in the Stationery directory, which is located in the home directory of the MDS. (usually C:\Program Files\Metatude\Metatude Dialogue Server\ on a Windows platform or /opt/mds on a Linux platform)