Bug 315214 - Feature Request - Email Buisness Template Creation and Management
Summary: Feature Request - Email Buisness Template Creation and Management
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: composer (show other bugs)
Version: 4.11 pre
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2013-02-15 16:47 UTC by Timothy
Modified: 2013-02-26 08:12 UTC (History)
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Description Timothy 2013-02-15 16:47:51 UTC
All,

Please create additional functionality to create, manage and modify email templates.

Please include a management interface to create folders to group templates with customizable naming and nesting of folders.

Please create a function to share local templates with other users.

Please add a function to insert template from reply composer.

Please add a new message from template toolbar to browse and select template.

Reproducible: Always




This is incrediably useful for using Kontact for Enterprise Email as buisnesses often utilize standardized Email forms/templates.
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2013-02-25 17:12:19 UTC
Ok a lot of feature, now you need to explain more what you want :)

We have template it's not enough ?
Comment 2 Timothy 2013-02-26 01:24:40 UTC
Laruant,

The current email template configuration is not very intuitive and sadly does not work very well at all.

For example I created a custom template in KDE SC 4.9.5 and it is not displayed to select under Kontact --> 
File --> New --> New message from template. Also the option to save a new email in the composer as a new template also does not seem to work. From the composer menu --> Message --> Save as template the following error is provided: "Failed to save the message: Unknown collection."

Bottom line in my opinion the template configuration needs to be reworked. A simplified system to create and group locale templates needs to be established. Also currenlty in each of the areas that I have seen to create different types of templates under the Kmail Configuration settings there is no way to add file attachments.

One way to make some improvement would be to modify the Kontact --> Kmail Settings --> Composer --> Custom Templates adding features to create folders to group template types and add a function to embed attachments into the templates. Also launching an interface with a similiar look to Composer to create the templates would also be nice. Essentially a composer window with extra functions for template creation with the other composer functions removed.
Comment 3 Timothy 2013-02-26 01:26:12 UTC
Laurent,

I appologize for mispelling your name I butchered it pretty badly.
Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2013-02-26 08:12:44 UTC
Save as template the following error is provided: "Failed to save the message: Unknown collection." 
it's a problem in your identity, template folder is not defined. Please reconfigure it