Render a Salesforce Email Template in a Visualforce Page

Question

I need to be able to load and render an email template in a visualforce page. What are my options here?

I understand that loading it is as simple as querying the EmailTemplate table. Now how do I render it in my visualforce page so the letterhead appears, etc?

Answer 1

Your somewhat limited in your ability to render the template with any of the built-in Visualforce components, for one there isn't a way to get 'Merge Fields' to render the accompanied values.

With that in mind, I think the safest way to do it would be to create a frame and render the EmailTemplate.HtmlValue (EmailTemplate) as un-escaped HTML once you have queried the template in your VF Controller (probably would query the template by name)