# Adding a link in the message invitations
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 7, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369 "2019-10-07T01:06:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369/1 "2019-10-07T01:06:18Z")
When users are invited to a message, it sends them an email with the `user_notifications.invited_to_private_message_body` template:
```plaintext
%{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.
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### Author:  [@tohaitrieu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tohaitrieu)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369/2 "2019-10-07T01:51:58Z")
Do you try to insert the direct link as [https://meta.discourse.org](https://meta.discourse.org) or user html
```
https://meta.discourse.org
```
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### Author:  [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369/3 "2019-10-07T19:30:49Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369/4 "2019-10-12T22:19:59Z")
It seems odd that we don’t include a link in this email @techAPJ? Can you repro?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369/5 "2019-10-14T06:57:48Z")
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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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2019, 6:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369/6 "2019-10-15T06:28:09Z")
PR here:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8194](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](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/16d8e3f872528839b8c765fefa7b57c393b2683e/config/locales/server.en.yml#L2376).
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 9:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369/7 "2019-10-16T09:52:53Z")
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.
>
>
> FEATURE: allow staff to use topic\_url for customizing email template
Topic:
PM:
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### Author:  [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369/8 "2019-10-16T23:36:12Z")
Thanks, that looks great.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-link-in-the-message-invitations/130369/9 "2019-11-15T23:48:11Z")
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