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Feature Request FR-2674
Product Area Application Builder
Status CLOSED

14 Voters

Include a Custom Email Template Builder in Shared Components

sorin.apalaghie Internal · Aug 7 2022

Idea Summary
Most of us APEX Developers are backend developers. So when business asks us to create and send a high fidelity, pretty, optimized-for-mobile email  notification what we typically do is search google for “high fidelity, pretty, optimized-for-mobile email  notification”. The lucky ones have a front-end guy in their team who can assist with this request. 

Use Case
I would like a new section in Share Components to be created, which would allow any user to create a custom email template using drag & drop of “email sections”, “images”, “email buttons", etc. It would be the “APEX Builder” of “_Creating a high fidelity, pretty, optimized-for-mobile  HTML email template_”. 

Preferred Solution (Optional)

https://www.hubspot.com/products/marketing/email?hubs_post=blog.hubspot.com/marketing/email-template-builder&hubs_post-cta=HubSpot%20Email%20Marketing%20Tools&_ga=2.15956598.1199597889.1659852723-1851720173.1659852723

We reviewed this idea carefully, and while it was interesting, we concluded that due to all the internal implications we need to take into account, it is unlikely to make its way into APEX.

Comments

Comments

  • jayson hanes Admin OP 2.9 years ago

    Oooo yes this would be nice! I think a wysiwyg HTML viewer could be applied in many places of the IDE

  • fac586 OP 2.9 years ago

    Oooo yes this would be nice! I think a wysiwyg HTML viewer could be applied in many places of the IDE

    Careful. The archaic table-based mark-up required in HTML emails is not what we'd want in a modern, responsive, mobile-friendly web app.

  • jayson hanes Admin OP 2.9 years ago

    I'm sure that we could figure out a happy middle ground on this. There are parts of APEX that are using not-so-modern HTML and it works decently enough.

  • jason.blankenship OP 2.4 years ago

    If something like this is built out I would also like to see it as a page component so end users can build/update their email templates within live apex apps.

  • shane_bentz OP 2.4 years ago

    If something like this is built out I would also like to see it as a page component so end users can build/update their email templates within live apex apps.

    I'd also love to provide end users the ability to build/update email templates that end up being stored in the Shared Components > Email Templates – that way I can make use of the existing APIs for using those templates. If those APIs were expanded to be able to save email templates, then we easily build our own APEX pages that call the APIs.

  • fac586 OP 2.4 years ago

    I'd also love to provide end users the ability to build/update email templates that end up being stored in the Shared Components > Email Templates – that way I can make use of the existing APIs for using those templates. If those APIs were expanded to be able to save email templates, then we easily build our own APEX pages that call the APIs.

    This is a separate request: FR-2000