Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Who is getting this?

You might have noticed that if you add lots of subscribers to an alert, none of them know about any of the others.  It can be a good thing if you are quietly keeping an eye on someone making sure they act on their report, but sometimes you know other folks are getting it, but knowing who all might also be acting on it can be tricky.



So, a good practice for any multi-recipient emails is to just add a list to the bottom of the email.
It is super easy to do with just a pinch of old time HTML.  You may remember your unordered list tags <UL></UL> and list items <LI></LI>and your nice small text tag <H6></H6>  Just combine them as below:

<H6><UL>
<LI>Recipient 1</LI>
<LI>Recipient 2</LI>
etc.
</UL></H6>

Now when you do it, take out all of the extra line returns before saving it, otherwise it makes the list longer than it needs to be, but for legibility here I used them.  If your staff has trouble with small font, bump them up to an H5 instead.


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