Preview Email Before Sending It Out

[johndoe]

Hi!

 

I would like to know if it was possible to preview the email before it it sent out? If so, what function do I use to do it? Thanks!

[Joe Pampalon]

Hello,

 

There is currently no built-in function that will show you a preview of the Email that has been constructed. I recommend building a variable alongside the Email body during the script process that will mirror the contents of the Email body. Then you can script going to a layout where you set a text field to the variable for plain-text emails or you set a web viewer to the variable for HTML emails. You will need to preface the HTML code for the web viewer with "data:text/html" to enable the web viewer to render the HTML as a web page.

 

The one caveat here is that inline attachments will likely not show up since the attachment process happens just before sending the email.

 

Another possible workaround is to have the ability to send your email to a local email account before sending it to the actual recipient for quality assurance purposes.