Hi, On 27/07/15 04:06, Mark H. Wood wrote: > The email templates haven't kept up with recent developments in > DSpace. I think we need to re-examine the problem. > [...] > I'm powerfully attracted by the > idea of giving the template design to the people who care about the > content of the email, and having developers just support them with > data from which they can make simple textual substitutions. I feel > that programmers shouldn't be writing letters to end users.
I don't have a suggestion for a way forward, but I just wanted to say that I agree with you 100%. If we can figure out a way to give control over the templates to the repository administrators, that would be ideal. Maybe even have a shared footer/signature, so that you don't need to change every single e-mail template when your institution changes its logo or whatever. (Oooh that's another can of worms isn't it? I have been asked in the past why DSpace can't send HTML e-mails.) I'm wondering if it's worth holding off on a decision for a little while longer though, given the UI prototyping work ahead. Chances are that the new UI will involve a templating language of some sort. Now, those templating languages are generally targeted at front-end developers / web designers who are probably a little more familiar with scripting concepts than your average repository administrator. But it may still be worthwhile not to introduce two different templating languages? As a completely separate thought, might it make sense to look at something like Mailchimp just in terms of what other places consider reasonable to put in front of end users when it comes to creating e-mail templates? They probably need less complex logic than may be required for DSpace. But from my little bit of exposure to Mailchimp, they do a pretty good job with the UX. cheers, Andrea -- Dr Andrea Schweer IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
