When users are invited to a message, it sends them an email with the user_notifications.invited_to_private_message_body template: %{username} invited you to a message > **%{topic_title}** > > %{topic_excerpt} at > %{site_title} -- %{site_description} Is there a way to add a link to the message in the template? I tried %{base_url}%{url}, but it seems to be invalid for that template. Users are getting confused, since there is nothing to click. If it isn’t possible to link to the message, I can just send them to the /my/messages path, which seems to redirect them to their messages list.

Instead of adding a new .html.erb template file I updated the existing user’s invite template to include topic/PM link (similar to what we do for new user invite link) in topic title and at the bottom of email. This also allows staff to use and repurpose topic_link as they see fit while customizing invite email template. FIX: include topic link when inviting existing users to a topic/PM committed 07:06AM - 16 Oct 19 UTC (UTC) [image] arpitjalan +20 -7 FEATURE: allow staff to use topic_url for customizing email template Topic: [10] PM: [46]

Do you try to insert the direct link as https://meta.discourse.org or user html https://meta.discourse.org

Currently, I’ve overridden the template to send users to forum.example.com/my/messages, but that’s just the list of all messages. I’m hoping to send them directly to the specific message that they have been invited to.

Yes, this seems like a recent regression from email HTML customization feature. We used to include “Visit Message” link in email footer, not anymore. Will fix on priority.

PR here: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8194 Will merge once the PR is reviewed by @neil. Note that this change is specific to inviting existing users. Inviting new user via email already includes topic/message link per template.

Adding a link in the message invitations

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 12, 2019, 10:19pm 4

It seems odd that we don’t include a link in this email @techAPJ? Can you repro?

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Adding a link in the message invitations

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