Documentation for Crucible 3.0.x. Documentation for other versions is available too.

Email notifications in Crucible can be customised to change their formatting, by editing template files. This page contains instructions for this process.

Editing Crucible email templates

Template files for Crucible are stored in the <Crucible home directory>/template/crucible/ folder.

There are sets of templates for both HTML and plain-text emails. Note that these templates do not support embedding full diffs into notifications. They are only for changing the appearance and order of certain content inside the messages.

If you edit the templates of an operational Crucible instance, you may disrupt notifications that are being sent at that time. To avoid this, shut Crucible down during template editing.

Editing the subject line

  1. Open the crucible-notification-subject.ftl template file from <Crucible home directory>/template/crucible/ in a text editor. This template is used as the subject template for all Crucible email notifications.
  2. Type in new text for the email subject, ensuring that all of the content is contained within line 1 of the template. 
  3. Save and close the file.
  4. Restart Crucible to activate the new templates.

Editing the header

Header information will be included at the beginning of the email body text.

  1. Open the 'crucible-notification-header.ftl' template file from <Crucible home directory>/template/ in a text editor. This template is used as the header template for all Crucible email notifications.
  2. Add your new header content. 
  3. Save and close the file.
  4. Restart Crucible to activate the new templates.

Editing the footer

Footer information will be included at the end of the email body text.

  1. Open the 'crucible-notification-footer.ftl' template file from <Crucible home directory>/template/ in a text editor. 'crucible-notification-footer.ftl' is used as the footer template for all Crucible email notifications.
  2. Add your new footer content.
  3. Save and close the file.
  4. Restart Crucible to activate the new templates.

After an edit, the change to the email template will take place immediately. No restart is required.

Try and avoid editing the live template file, as Crucible may try to use it while you are editing. This could have unpredictable results. Instead, back up the template file (it's wise to keep original versions of all these files), edit a copy you have made, then overwrite the 'live' template once you have finished.

Advanced editing of Crucible email templates

The email notification templates use the Freemarker format. Freemarker is a general templating engine enabling automated content.

If you are familiar with Freemarker, more advanced customisations can be made to the email notification templates. However, you make such adjustments at your own risk.

Crucible email template files

The following template files for Crucible notification are stored in the <Crucible home directory>/template/ folder.

Template filename

Purpose

crucible-notification-subject.ftl

Subject template

crucible-notification-header.ftl

Header template

crucible-notification-footer.ftl

Footer template

state-closed-notification.ftl

State Closed template

all-completed-notification.ftl

All Completed template

state-changed-notification.ftl

State Changed template

completed-notification.ftl

Completed template

general-notification.ftl

General notification template

uncompleted-notification.ftl

'Uncompleted' template

all-no-longer-completed-notification.ftl

All-No-Longer-Completed template

comment-notification.ftl

Comment template

reply-notification.ftl

Reply template

review-precis-plain.ftl

Precis template

review-reminder-notification.ftlReview Reminder template

See also Customising FishEye Email Notifications.

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  1. Malik Mangier

    There's a Bug report currently opened tracking the fact that email subject customization does not work:  CRUC-4180 - Getting issue details... STATUS

  2. Malik Mangier

    In fact a lot of information from this page needs to be updated. This is tracked as  CRUC-6297 - Getting issue details... STATUS

 

 

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