TDX: Notification Templates

Before Getting Started

You are a TDNext Administrator with access to the administrative interface. You also have an understanding of HTML and CSS.

Assumption

Default notifications generated by TDX are mundane and visually not very good. Colleges may wish to brand them and make them simpler or more appealing.

Steps

Notifications use the Mustache templating language and TDX has extensive documentation on templates that touches on that language (see also). VCCS has customized our own notifications and shared our templates. In addition, there is a personal project by a TDX technician hosted here that enables you to download a set of templates.

Note that validating the look and feel of notifications across different clients is very challenging. Classic Outlook in particular is extremely idiosyncratic in its behavior, although you may choose to ignore that client. Vendors of bulk emailing solutions often have guidance on this topic (e.g. MailChimp, CampaignMonitor). One way to test is to edit your code in a local html file, open that file in your browser, select all, and copy/paste to a GMail message, which you can then send to different testing addresses.

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