Manage email templates

Restricted functionality

This functionality can only be accessed when having one of the following roles:

• OWNER
• CLUSTER_ADMIN
• ALLOCATION_BOARD_MEMBER

Learn more about roles here.

The email templates are used by PERSEUS for sending internal and external emails.

Internal Emails: Internal emails are mails within PERSEUS, e.g.for status changes of a project

External Emails: External emails are messages to e.g. the PI of a project.

Add / Edit Email template

Email template ID

The ID is used to select the email template when sending emails. Spaces should be avoided.

Email template name

The template name is used for display purposes and may be used as the email subject if no subject has been specified.

Email template content

The body part of the mail. Here, you can use predefined placeholders such as {greeting} or project data such as {project.abbreviation}. By default, the following object data is used for formatting:

• project - The project with which data the mail is formatted
• pi - The PI of the project
• pc - The PC of the project

The mail content is formatted using Python format syntax.

Email attributes/placeholder

A list of available Email attributes and examples can be found by open the help preview when adding/editing an email template.

Preview template

With the preview functionality you have the possibility to display a rendered preview of an email template with a random project from the PERSEUS database:

Sending Emails

If you want to send emails on a specific action or event, have a look here: Send mails