# Changes to email templates not saving

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-to-email-templates-not-saving/70691>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [September 25, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-to-email-templates-not-saving/70691 "2017-09-25T01:19:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-to-email-templates-not-saving/70691/9 "2017-09-27T21:40:18Z")

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I fixed this today. You should get an error when you try to save an email template with missing interpolation keys.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/1a378126259b1461bb935d1385778842d33b088a](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/1a378126259b1461bb935d1385778842d33b088a)

Bonus: Changing an email template will create an entry in the Staff Log. That didn’t happen before.

While testing this I also noticed that reverting changes to an email template or site text can result in a “translation missing” error. I think I found a [solution for that](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5208) as well, but I’m not comfortable merging it in until someone else from the team takes a look at it.

@Pad_Pors Unfortunately it’s currently not possible to omit interpolation keys.

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