Enabling email capabilities in Composition Center

In the Design Center Runtime Process settings, you can enable the email capabilities described below.

•	By default, the Email preview format is enabled when there is an output connector for the final delivery of emails available.

When the preview is enabled, the business user can set the following email properties in Composition Center:

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Subject

–	From (not applicable to EasyLink)

–	Reply to (not applicable to EasyLink)

–	Display name (not applicable to EasyLink)

These email properties override the corresponding properties specified for the email output connector, and is used both when test sending emails and when delivering the production emails.

An email property set in Composition Center remains in the runtime repository even if you disable the email capabilities in Design Center at a later stage. That is, the property would still be used in production emails. You must therefore make sure the email properties are cleared in Composition Center before you disable the email capabilities in Design Center.

•	You can enable the business user to test send examples of emails. You must then select the output connector to be used for test sending.

•	You can add a watermark image to be used when test sending emails. At a test send, this watermark image overrides any Body background image defined for the HTML unpaginated driver.

By default, no watermark image is included when test sending emails in Composition Center. To avoid test emails being interpreted as real output emails, we recommend that you add a watermark image to test emails. There are big differences in how watermark images are treated by different email clients. We recommend that you use the Composition Center test send functionality to verify that the watermark image is properly rendered in each email client of interest. If you identify potential display issues, you must account for those issues in your Project design. For example, by adding textual messages to the template.

Prerequisites

•	To enable the email capabilities, an output connector for the final delivery of emails must be available in the Project Platform. See Creating output connectors for delivery.

•	To enable test sending of emails from Composition Center, an output connector for test sending must be available in the Project Platform. See Creating output connectors for test sending emails (optional).

•	To select a watermark image, the image must be available in the resource set. The image format must be supported by the email clients.

To enable email capabilities

1	In the Runtime configuration node, right-click the Process and select Settings.

2	In the Runtime Process Settings dialog box, click the Delivery channels tab and select Email.

3	From the Test connector list, select the output connector to be used for test sending emails based on this specific template.

–	None – Disables test sending of emails in Composition Center.

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Custom – Selects the output connector for test sending emails using ordinary Runtime configuration procedures for linking Processes to output connectors. For example, by using script functions to create a dynamic connection and select a watermark image. See Selecting output connector for test sending emails (optional).

–	<Output connector> – Uses the specified output connector for test sending emails.

4	Optional – If an <Output connector> is selected from the Test connector list, select a watermark image to be added when test sending emails.

Note that you cannot add a watermark image to emails sent via an EasyLink Email output connector using the Watermark image setting in this dialog box. To add a watermark image to such emails, you must use the HTML unpaginated driver property Body background image.

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Click OK.