Self Help/SlideRocket Advanced/Brand Control

Custom HTML Invites

Tara Clark
posted this on November 30, 2009 04:35 pm

The Invite Email Template replaces the default invite text with a custom designed and branded template. This template will be usable within your SlideRocket company. 

This is a SlideRocket Advanced feature and is intended for users with experience in HTML.

  

Designing the Invite Email Template

There are two types of tags required in the HTML Template, {inviteURL} and {message}.

 

Required Tags

{inviteURL}: Required to show link to presentation

Sample HTML: Here is the invite <a href="{inviteURL}">URL</a>

{message}: Required to show subject line and message in the invite

 Sample HTML: {message}

 

Optional Tags

  • {branding}: Includes SlideRocket branding
    • Sample HTML: Here is the SlideRocket branding.... {branding} <br />
  • {userEmail}: Shows user's email that sent the invite
    • Sample HTML: SlideRocket user's email that sent invite {userEmail}<br />
  • <!--Default Subject: Provides message in the subject line. This message will be editable.
    • Sample HTML: <!--Default Subject:THIS IS WHAT WILL APPEAR IN THE SUBJECT LINE-->
  • <!--Default Message: Provides the message in the message box. This message will be editable.
    • Sample HTML: <!--Default Message:THIS IS THE TEXT THAT WILL SHOW IN THE MESSAGE FIELD -->

  

Sample HTML Template

samplehtml.png 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title></title>

</head>

<body>

Here is the SlideRocket branding.... {branding} <br /><br />

Here is the invite <a href="{inviteURL}">URL</a> <br /><br />

Sliderocket User's email that sent the invite {userEmail}<br /><br />

{message}

<!--Default Message:THIS IS THE TEXT THAT WILL SHOW IN THE MESSAGE FIELD-->

<!--Default Subject:THIS IS WHAT WILL APPEAR IN THE SUBJECT LINE -->

</body>

</html>

 

ADVANCED NOTE: When adding an image to the HTML, the link must be an absolute URL. If the image’s URL changes or expires, the invite will show a broken image.

 

 

Uploading an Invite Email Template

To upload an HTML email template the user must have admin rights. The template will be available to all users. If changes are made to an individual invite, the changes will not update the template.

  1. Click Account tab accounttab.png
  2. Click Company Settings companysettings.png
  3. Click Import new template… importnewsettings.png
  4. Select HTML file from the computer
  5. Click Open

 

 

Sending an Invite

  1. Click presentation to open Presentations Dashboard
  2. Click Share
  3. Click Invite. This menu can also be accessed by selecting Invite... from the Share menu in the Presentation Editor invite.png
  4. Enter email(s) for the viewer(s)
  5. Import Contacts… sync with Google Gmail to import emails into the invite
  6. Set Options:
    • Allow commenting: Set whether viewers of this presentation are allowed to comment
    • Allow printing/exporting: Set whether viewers of this invite are allowed to print it
    • Allow resharing: Set whether viewers of this invite are allowed to reshare it with others or embed it into their own blog or website. If this presentation is not published, this link will not work
    • Notify me when viewed: Send an email when presentation is viewed
    • Expire invitation on: Set end date to view presentation from this invite. This is optional and can be set or changed after the invite is sent
  7. Edit the email Subject (optional)
  8. Enter a Message (optional)
  9. Click Send invite

 

ADVANCED NOTE: Features selected under Publish will apply to the presentation played from the invite.
 
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