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Email template
It is strongly recommended to start creating an Email template with a Wizard; see "Creating an
Email template with a Wizard" on page364. Designing HTML email that displays properly on a
variety of devices and screen sizes is challenging. Building an email is not like building for the
web. While web browsers comply with standards (to a significant extent), email clients do not.
Different email clients interpret the same HTML and CSS styles in totally different ways.
When an Email template is created, either with a Wizard or by adding an Email context to an
existing template (see "Adding a context" on page321), the Email context folder is created
along with other files that are specific to an Email context; see "Email context" on page368.
Only one Email section is created at the start, but you can add as many Email sections as you
need; see "Email templates" on page370. However, when the Designer merges a data set to
generate output from the Email context, it can merge only one of the templates with each
record; see "Generating Email output" on page973.
Email templates are personalized just like any other template; see "Variable Data" on
page604.
Sending email
When the template is ready, you can change the email settings (see "Email header settings" on
page373) and send the email directly from the Designer or via Workflow. To test a template,
you can send a test email first.
Output, generated from an Email template, can have the following attachments:
l The contents of the Print context, in the form of a single PDF attachment.
l The output of the Web context, as an integral HTML file.
l Other files, an image or a PDF leaflet for example.
Attaching the Print context and/or the Web context is one of the options in the Send (Test)
Email dialog.
See "Email attachments" on page379 and "Generating Email output" on page973.
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