Adding a link in the message invitations

#1

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.

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#2

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

<a href="https://meta.discourse.org">https://meta.discourse.org</a>
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#3

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.

#4

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

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#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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#6

PR here:

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.

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