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:

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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 

Yes, it's same like what you have provided. I have only changed the background-color and text-color codes. Rest of the code is same as it is. 

 

I just need to change the text color of those buttons. Which is not happening now. 

Hi @Viraj Hudlikar - This is not a recommended approach. The /api/now/v1/table/ endpoint is designed for programmatic access to ServiceNow's data via REST APIs. It's typically used by external applications, integrations, or scripts to interact with the instance programmatically. For this use case, I recommend a button (or a link).

 

See my response to @anvitha ash's other thread on the topic here: https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-forum/e-mail-notification-script-button-not-redirecti...

@Sheldon  Swift  - Thanks for correcting me. Appreciate you hawk eye over community post replies.

anvitha ash
Tera Contributor

@Viraj Hudlikar 

There was another inbound inbound action which is lesser order due to which my inbound action was not getting triggered 

 

To tackle this, I simply created flow designer inbound action and now it is working as expected 

RITM getting closed 

Task aslo getting created now as well 

 

 

Thanks for all the way for you support. It's great learning 

 

 

@Viraj Hudlikar thank you🙂

Great @anvitha ash that you learnt something today. Cheers Happy learning and thanks for accepting my answer.