Signature for emails

We have been enjoying being able to email directly within the OpenVPMS program.

I wonder though if there is a way of setting a signature for the bottom of the email that contains practice information/ logo and even user name and qualifications?

Thanks,

Noni

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Re: Signature for emails

Noni - I assume you are running 1.9 or 1.9.1 - if so, yes this is quite possible. The help page to read is http://www.openvpms.org/documentation/csh/1.9/admin/template/email - which you can also get to via the help screen displayed when you press Alt-F1 on the Administration|Templates screen.

The best way to achieve what you want is to create an email template that provides the "stationary" for your email. When you want to send an email, on the email write screen, you press the Template button and select the required template, then fill in the required text.

If you have many staff and do not want to create personalised "stationary" for each of then, it will be easier to have one template that has all the stuff at the bottom, and then you create and use a macro to bring in the staff member's name and qualifications. If you want to do this, then the macro expression is something like:

concat($nl,"Regards, ",$user.firstName,$nl,user:format($user.id, 'long'))

which (assuming that you have the Title, First & Last names & qualifications set in the Administration|Users record) will generate something like:

Regards, David
Dr David Gething, BSc (Vet Biol) BVMS (Hons)

 

Regards, Tim G

Re: Signature for emails

You can use:

    concat($nl,"Regards, ",$user.firstName,$nl,user:format($user, 'long'))

as well. The user:format(id, format) version is better suited to SQL reports.

Re: Signature for emails

Can you put a logo on doing this and how do you get it to go onto reminder emails that are generated automatically (e.g. can't select a template to add).

Cheers Chloe

JFLM

Re: Signature for emails

Chloe: a) what version of OpenVPMS are you running? If 1.9 then logos on emails are possible - see http://www.openvpms.org/documentation/csh/1.9/admin/template/email and http://www.openvpms.org/documentation/csh/1.9/how/email-template-tips

b) sexy email reminders - you really have to wait for 2.0 and its vastly improved reminder system. In 1.9 the reminder email body can have a logo - BUT the body text cannot contain the reminder details - all you can say is 'see attached document for the details'. However, in 2.0 it can.

Regards, Tim G

Re: Signature for emails

We have 1.9. Thanks Tim very helpful! Look forward to 2.0

JFLM
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