How to add button in email notification

anvitha ash
Tera Contributor

Hello,

 

I need to add a button in email notification triggered to user, button called "Close Request" when user click on the button it should update the RITM record state to "Closed Completed" 

 

How can I achieve this. Could someone please let me on this 

 

Thanks in advance 😃 

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Hello @anvitha ash 

Sorry for delay in response.

After going through entire overnight discussion do find updated things for your requirement.


Over email notification you need two buttons so the HTML source code as below:

 

<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="width: 100%; height: 52px; padding-top: 16px;"><span id="closerequest" class="btn" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid #4f52bd; padding: 6px 16px; color: #4f52bd;">${mailto:mailto.btn.closeRequest}</span><span id="createtaskforrequest" class="btn inverse" style="margin-left: 16px; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid #4f52bd; padding: 6px 16px; background-color: #4f52bd; color: #fff;">${mailto:mailto.btn.createtaskforrequest}</span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>

 

 

Then you will need two email template which will showcase details over your button and when click it will open a mailbox window so user will send email to ServiceNow instance.

Email template is created under table = sysevent_email_template

 

First will be for Close Request which will be as below:

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Second will be Create Task which will be as below:

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Email Preview will be as below:

VirajHudlikar_0-1737805174038.png

 

Now when any button is click it will open an outlook window to reply back to our instance which will look as below:

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Now to when this email comes in ServiceNow we need inbound action which I have already provided above in reply but to save scroll time here we go again with same.

 

Inbound action named as Create Task on table sc_task with type as reply and condition as mail.subject.indexOf('Create Task') > -1 and script will be as below

 

 var gr = new GlideRecord('sc_task');
    gr.initialize();
    gr.setValue('parent', email.instance);
    gr.setValue('short_description', 'New Task for RITM ' + email.instance);
    gr.insert();

 

 

Inbound Action with name as Close Request, for table sc_req_item with type as Reply and condition something as email.subject.indexOf('Close Request') > -1 which checks whether email subject is having word as Close Request and then in script field you will need to put code to update ritm to close when email is process so it will be as below. 

 

 var gr = new GlideRecord('sc_req_item');
    if (gr.get(email.instance)) {
        gr.setValue('state', 3); // 3 is the value for "Closed Complete"
        gr.update();
    }

 

 

If my response has helped you hit helpful button and if your concern is solved do mark my response as correct.

 

Thanks & Regards
Viraj Hudlikar.

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@Viraj Hudlikar my bad I just copied everything there

 

I don't want to have 2 email scripts and 2 inbound actions. Is there something by which we can add both the buttons and inbound actions in one email Script and one inbound action

Hello@anvitha ash 

 

You can merge two email script to one and use over notification by placing some break in between using html tags.

For inbound action it will different we cannot merge it as both has different email subject incoming and by this only you will be able to identify whether to close ritm or create task.

If my response has helped you hit helpful button and if your concern is solved do mark my response as correct.

 

Thanks & Regards
Viraj Hudlikar.

@Viraj Hudlikar 

 

Button is getting created, but the problem is on click it is not redirecting me to the respective record 

The URL is getting added twice, if we notice in the URL

 

 

 

Hello @anvitha ash 

For this you can modify the emailLink in email script provided by @Viraj Hudlikar 

 

Thank You

Juhi Poddar

@Juhi Poddar @Viraj Hudlikar 

 

I am using the same script provided by @Viraj Hudlikar 

 

But somehow emailLink is not redirecting me to the respective record rather throwing error as mentioned above in the screenshot