We’ve made changes to the email subject line when replying or forwarding emails with a template. The key change is that the new behavior preserves the original email subject in most scenarios instead of overwriting it with the template's subject
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Scenario |
Browser |
Previous Behaviour |
New Behaviour |
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User replies to an email with a template and doesn’t change the subject line. |
Gmail |
Email subject was overwritten by the email template's subject. |
Keeps the original email subject. |
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Outlook | |||
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User replies to an email with a template and does change the subject line. |
Gmail |
Error occurred and the screen was stuck on a blank Compose window. |
Compose window opens with the email thread and the email template populated. User can update the subject. |
|
Outlook |
User can update the email subject. By default, the subject is the email template’s subject. |
No changes. |
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User clicks on forward an email, inserts email template, sends the email |
Gmail |
Email subject was overwritten by the email template's subject. |
Keeps the original email subject. |
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Outlook | |||
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User clicks on forward an email, inserts email template, tries to edit subject |
Gmail |
Screen stuck on a blank Compose window. |
Compose window opens with the email thread and the email template populated. User can update the subject. |
|
Outlook |
User can update the email subject. By default, the subject is the email template’s subject. |
No changes. | |
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User clicks on forward an email, edits the subject, inserts email template |
Gmail |
Email subject was overwritten by the email template's subject. |
Compose window opens with the email thread and the email template populated. User can update the subject. |
|
Outlook |
Note:
As a result of this change, merge fields included in the subject line of an email template will not populate when replying to or forwarding a message. The original subject line will be preserved.
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