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.
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.
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.
