This started happening after I upgraded to v1.9.0.beta5 +30. When I do a bulk invite from file, I change the Invite Forum Mailer text to be specific for that set of invitations. Then I change it back to a different text for single manual invites. This worked fine until I upgraded to the latest ve…

I’ve also reproduced the issue on our test site, so it doesn’t appear to be something specific to our particular installation.

Thanks for taking a look at it!

I am unable to repro this on latest Discourse version. @Nicholas_Tolstoshev are you seeing any error in /logs?

Thanks for checking! I’ll look at the logs and do some more troubleshooting on my end to see if I can figure out what the problem is.

Ok I think I’m making some progress with this. I removed all custom themes and plugins from my test install and the issue is still happening. What I’ve found is that if you don’t include the variables %{invitee_name} and %{site_domain_name} in the Invite Forum Mailer subject line, then the templat…

Also note that this behavior is new to this version. On previous versions of Discourse I was able to save any subject line without it requiring the variables in question.

That is because we validate the field to make sure it has all the required translations / substitutions, which @tgxworld worked on.

Validation is good, of course, but wouldn’t a warning / error message be appropriate? [immagine] Nicholas_Tolstoshev: the change does not save even though no error message is given.

[immagine] codinghorror: That is because we validate the field to make sure it has all the required translations / substitutions, which @tgxworld worked on. Is the validation new for this version?

Bulk Invite from File resets the Invite Forum Mailer customized text

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tgxworld (Alan Tan) 13 Agosto 2017, 11:41pm 13

It does seem like the code path isn’t checking if the translation was saved successfully at all for email template customizations.

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Bulk Invite from File resets the Invite Forum Mailer customized text

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