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11/11/2007

Configuring Email Alert Templates

Q: How do I configure the email template for alerts sent by MOSS 2007?

A: Follow these steps:

Go to the 12 hive and look for the XML folder (for example C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML)
Make a backup of the AlertTemplates.xml and open this file in an XML editor for customization.
You can see that in AlertTemplates.xml, each list type (doc library, announcments etc) is represented by a separate section
If you need to make distinct alert formatting for each specific list type, go ahead and use the specific list type section only
If you need to apply formatting to all the list types, modify the GenericList section which is the first section in this file.
Expand the Format subsection
You can do all the nice things to your email body and header formatting for eg. using the formbody and headercontent sections
Apply the changes to your site by using STSADM utility stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -url

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Re: Configuring Email Alert Templates

Is there any way to get images in the alerttemplate.xml via the CSS [background-image:url()] syntax?

I've tried (using absolute and relative paths) but they don't show up. NOTE - if I preview my Outlook message in a browser the images *DO* show up.

Please tell me it can be done! :D

at 8/9/2009 4:00 PM