Custom Email Templates

When having users interact with Managed IoT Cloud there are certain scenarios that require an email to be sent. Since there is a possibility for a user to have a specific locale set, there is also a possibility to change the email template used. This guide will help you to create your own custom email template for the locale of your liking.

Email templates

There are several different templates that can be changed. These custom templates are stored as .HTML files using the File API. For every template there is a subject and a body file. You can have localized templates for all of your domains.

Available templates

Below is a table of the available templates that are customizable. They have some required template tags that need to be included in the template in order for the email to have all correct information.

Template Name	Description	Required Template Tags
CustomMessage_AdminCreateUser	This template is used when the administrator creates a new user. The email is then sent to the newly created user.	${userName}, ${link}
CustomMessage_ForgotPassword	This template is used when the user requests to get a new password.	${userName}, ${link}
CustomMessage_SignUp	This template is used when a new user creates their new account. An email is then sent to the user with a confirmation link to activate their new account.	${link}
CustomMessage_ResendCode	This template is used when a new user requests a new activation link. An email is then sent to the user with a confirmation link to activate their new account.	${link}
CustomMessage_UpdateUserAttribute	This template is used when a user email is changed. An email is sent to the old email address stating to login and verify that the new email is correct.	${userName}, ${link}
New_User	This templates is used when a new user is created and it needs to be activated by the administrator. This email is sent to the administrator. NOTE: This can only be customized in en-US and in the root domain, since this sends one email to multiple recipients.	${userName}, ${link}
Welcome_Message	This template is used when the user is completely activated and able to login.	${userName}, ${link}, ${email}

Template file structure

As the files are stored in the public storage, you as a developer need to create two files and upload them onto a certain location. Below is a list of the available templates.

Example template for CustomMessage_AdminCreateUser

Type	File Name	Content
Subject	CustomMessage_AdminCreateUser.subject.html	Welcome to Managed IoT Cloud!
Body	CustomMessage_AdminCreateUser.body.html	<p>A new user account with username ${userName} has been created for you on the Managed IoT Cloud platform.</p><p>To activate the user account, you need to set a password at ${link} within 7 days.</p><p>Please note that you cannot respond to this mail.</p>

To have this template uploaded and used for a certain locale, the path is built up as:
custom_email_templates/<domainId>/<locale>/<template_name>.<type>.html

• <domainId> : Under what domainId you want to place the template. This is a flat structure since domainId is unique for your environment. Use the Domain API to find your domains.
• <locale> : This is an ISO639‑1 language code in lowercase and an ISO3166‑1 country code in uppercase, separated by a dash. For example, en-US or sv-SE.
• <template_name> : One of the template names described in the table of available templates
• <type> : body | subject