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.

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

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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techAPJ (Arpit Jalan) October 14, 2019, 6:57am 5

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.

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Adding a link in the message invitations

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