Create Custom Mail Template-Setting up wfMessage based upon workflow

Question

Hi,
I have some 4 workflows and each should send out an email as soon as it is triggered.I have created one template which has some metadata fields,I need to dynamically change the wfMessage and wfMailSubject based upon the workflow,i wanted to understand how can we set the value of these 2 variables in the template.Do i need to create a custom component for each workflow with resource Strings and set this value and create a template and call this template.Has anyone implemented anything like this before?

Answer 1

Got you.
I think it's a question what the template should serve for. Usually, you want to modify it to change the content of the message - you may add a logo, re-organize the email, etc.
But often, you use variables wfMessage and wfMailSubject to parametrize the text and the subject of the message. Note that this is not mandatory, and you could modify the logic of the template so that those two variables are derived from other workflow content (something like move to the code of the template a code like) <$if dWfName like "Workflow1"$>
<$wfMessage="Message for Workflow 1"$>
<$elseif dWfName like "Workflow2"$>
<$wfMessage="Message for Workflow 2"$>
...It will work, but somehow, I don't like it - I think these two should be parameters set up by workflow, not something contained in the template, but that is my opinion.