mailto email template

Maria DeLaCruz
Tera Guru

Hello,

I have 'mailto' email templates that are Yes and No links on an email notification.   There's an inbound action that captures these responses.   My question is, when the Yes or No link is clicked, and an email reply dialog box opens up, can text be added to the body of that reply message (where the watermark shows)?   In my screen shot below, can text be added to the yellow section?   When I checked the email template, the "Message" area is for the text that you would like to show for the hyperlink.

Thanks,
Maria

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russell_miller
Kilo Guru

Hi Maria,



Yes you can, but the best way I have found to do this is using a mailscript as you need to be able to set the "body" of the mailto link



e.g. <a href="mailto:inbound@myinstance.service-now.com?subject=Help%20OMe&body=I%20need%20helpRegards%20″>



I've posted on my blog about using images to enhance the look of your mailto: links, but you could use the concepts in that to achieve what you need...



ServiceNow Test Dummy: Graphic Buttons for email approvals



Hope that is of use.


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russell_miller
Kilo Guru

Hi Maria,



Yes you can, but the best way I have found to do this is using a mailscript as you need to be able to set the "body" of the mailto link



e.g. <a href="mailto:inbound@myinstance.service-now.com?subject=Help%20OMe&body=I%20need%20helpRegards%20″>



I've posted on my blog about using images to enhance the look of your mailto: links, but you could use the concepts in that to achieve what you need...



ServiceNow Test Dummy: Graphic Buttons for email approvals



Hope that is of use.


Thanks Russell!   This works perfectly!  


Hi Maria



mailto.approval is the template that loads when you click on Approve link from Approval email and


mailto.rejection for Rejection



You can add your text in Message box in those templates to display in reply email


Hi Kumar,



I have used these templates in my approval email, but it is not working as expected. When I click on the links in the approval email, it just opens a new tab in the browser but the task is not updated with approved or rejected.


Any suggestions on this please? I am working on fuji. I have even tried this on my personal Helsinki instance but even there it didnt work.



Thanks,


Prajakta