I want to use custom labels in the email template to display images stored in the documents.
I want to store the base URl and Ids in a label so that I can fix them on moving them to other sandboxes.
asked Oct 14, 2015 at 18:48
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What is the type of your email template? Is it a VF template?– manjit5190Oct 14, 2015 at 19:39
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2Only VF templates can have CL.– AshwaniOct 15, 2015 at 6:52
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It is an HTML template.– KeepcalmncodeOct 15, 2015 at 20:23
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Use below syntax to get the custom label in the Email Template, Please remember to enclose the syntax with single quote(').
'{!$Label.LabelName}'
answered Feb 20, 2016 at 14:09
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I don't know why this answer is down-voted. Perhaps it didn't work in 2016? But it does work now. You can use {!$Label.LabelName} in text/html classic email templates in Winter 19– AidanJan 31, 2019 at 17:13
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Was able to use the label without the single quote in the subject line. Thanks for the tip! Mar 7, 2019 at 19:41
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unable to use {!$Label.LabelName}' with or without quotes in body of classic email template Mar 26, 2019 at 15:37
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I can't get the label to work in the body of the email by itself. It does work in the subject and it does work in the URL of a link merge field. But whenever I use it by itself in the body the merge field gets replaced with blank text. I tried with and without the single quotes. Sep 3, 2019 at 8:47
You have to use VisualForce HTML template. Here's how to use it:
Suppose in the template, the Billing Address is written as follows:
<apex:variable var="billingAddress" value="Billing Address" />
To use the label change this to:
<apex:variable var="billingAddress" value="{!$Label.BillingAddress}"/>
As another example, you can change a literal value within the Visualforce markup like this:
<td>My Label</td>
To use a created label called MyLabel, instead of a literal, change this to:
<td>{!Label.MyLabel}</td>
And this should work fine!
You can use this format to use custom labels in the classic email templates.
{!$Label.put_your_label_api}
But to use images in the email you can create a formula field in which you can use this below formula and pass the url of image where it is publicly hosted.
IMAGE(image_url, alternate_text [, height, width])
