Working with Email Templates in Archive Shuttle

An important aspect of any data migration is staying informed on progress, key milestones, and any areas where issues or errors have surfaced.

You can create email templates within Archive Shuttle – our email archive migration tool – that can be used to send emails about the migration process. The templates can be customized with text and tokens specific to your migration. After creating a template, simply add a task to a Stage 2 workflow policy and it triggers an email to be sent to a target user or administrator, notifying them of a certain event related to the migration process.

For example, you could configure and send an email to an administrator when a certain VIP user’s migration is complete. Or, you could send an email to a user telling them their migration is complete and instructing them to restart their client.

Keep reading to learn how to create a template and use it to send an email.

Prerequisites for Email Templates

Before sending emails through Archive Shuttle, you need to ensure outbound SMTP settings are correct. To do this, go to Configuration > System Configuration > SMTP Settings.

Step 1: Create email template

1. Go to Configuration > Email Templates.
2. Click Add.
3. In the Name field, enter the name of the template, for example, Email to end user.
4. Enter the Subject line you want to appear on the email, for example, Your migration is complete.
5. If desired, enter a Description of the template and a Sender name.
6. Enter email text and Tokens and apply the desired formatting.
7. Once your email is complete, click Save.

Here’s how it might look:

Step 2: Test the template

Next, ensure your email formatting, tokens, and SMTP settings are correct by generating a test email. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the Configuration > Email Templates page, select the check box next to the email template you’ll test.
2. Click Test.
3. Enter the email address where you want to send the test email.
4. Select a container mapping.
5. Click Send.

A notification displays in the top right corner of Archive Shuttle telling whether the test email was successfully sent.

Step 3: Add the template to a Stage 2 workflow policy

To send an email using one of the email templates, you must add a step to a Stage 2 workflow policy that causes the email to be sent. Here’s how to do it:

1. Go to Configuration > Workflow Policies.
2. Select the policy to which you’ll add the template, and then click Edit.
3. In the Commands column on the right, locate SendEmailNotification and click on it to add it to the Workflow Policy Flow frame.
4. Depending on the type of email you’re sending, you might want to send the email in the middle of the Workflow Policy Flow. If desired, drag the workflow step to a different location within the workflow policy.
5. Click the SendEmailNotification command’s Edit Options link.
6. Set workflow step’s options, and then click Save. For example, use the Email Template field to select the message you’ll send during the step. Or, use the Send to recipient attached to container field to specify who’ll receive the message (source container owner, target container owner, or custom recipient, such as an administrator).
7. Click Save in the top menu bar to save changes you made to the workflow policy.

Here’s how an email might look:

And here’s a video showing these steps:

If you’d like to learn more about our email and archive migration services, please contact our dedicated team today.