Customize SharePoint Email Alert Templates
Allow the site collection admins to customize the template for the standard SharePoint alerts. The current email alerts are confusing, provide too much information to the user and are out-of-date style-wise.
Allow the admins to add common fields, i.e. "Title", "Created By", and include an image and hyperlinks. Also allow adding a CSS style sheet.

31 comments
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Salih Zett commented
Seriously Why this is not possible (after more than 4 years)?
I can do this for encryption emails or also limited for Teams but not for Sharepoint. Just possible to add the company logo. This is not enough.
This would be a big help to identify phishing, scam, or impersonation emails.
This feature is a MUST-have !!! -
Anonymous commented
The only easy mechanism to identify a phishing email from the generic Microsoft invite is through the customisation of this feature.
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BK commented
We need to be able customize the Subject as well.
Thanks!
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Paul commented
I this issue was raised in 2016, but is now a function of teams but not SharePoint. Could it possible to brand the invitation that is send to external users when sharing a SharePoint site? Same as a team invite.
It would be great to change the Office 365 image and the color scheme for example.
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Anonymous commented
We need to be able to customize the emails going out from SharePoint - the subject at least.
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Anonymous commented
The alert templates need to be editable, they need this capability.
We need to either
edit the email template and its associated content locally and freely
or
have the ability to edit what content appears in the email-
no one size fits all -
some of the information contained is ok(ish)
- the rest of the information far out weighs the positive because you have an overwhelming amount of unimportant content.Please free this up. cheers ray
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Brian Hayes commented
I create email alerts using Microsoft flow, pretty easy to configure the emails any way that I need.
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Greg Drew commented
I get a daily digest of changes to a list that I subscribe to. I would like to be able to save the body of the alerts into a searchable format.
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Anonymous commented
Agree regarding customising things like the Subject and email body based on List columns and a per-object template.
It's asinine that I cant get the ID field in the Subject or Body of an email alert for an issue tracking list
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Anonymous commented
Yes please. Site - level customization, with the ability to include page content, or just part of it. For example, old wiki page alerts include all content in the email, which is very useful for a daily report page. new site pages don't, which means a user has to click to visit the page, and then often sign in with their credentials which impacts usage.
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Guy Surprenant commented
We need to modify the alert templates
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Anonymous commented
I want to customize the data I received in the email alert. Right now the data that is automatically selected to be sent is useless.
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Torey commented
we need to be able to change the "Alerts" message.
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Kelli commented
Agreed. We have an Issue List, with an Issue #/ID, but that is not included in the alert.
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Jonathan commented
Alerts!!! now!!!!
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Alex commented
I guess MS is seeing Flow as the Future of Email Alerts. I doubt there will be any future for Email Alerts.
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Noémie Vallée commented
We are in 2018 and I'm still waiting for this option to be available on SP online. It could be really great to customize the email format of an alert, but if it's not possible, it could be a good idea to just change a bit the format that is really not friendly user right now... Thank you !
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Kristine Davis commented
I am new to SharePoint and find the alerts confusing and often unhelpful. When a site page is added and autosaves the first time, it sends out an email alert with the title "Site Pages - b11kd2d6.aspx" - My users don't know what that means. And when you open the email, it says the page is changed - not created but changed. This is also confusing. Then when the page is published they get another email, this time with the new page title but it also states the page is changed. We use these alerts because our users are not in SharePoint daily and this way they can stay on top of new content. I would love a way to customize the alert templates so that they only include the correct page titles and could indicate that a new page has been created.
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Oscar Macías commented
at least the same template for immediately alert and week resume alert, because are different it seem like a typo error
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Alex commented
Branding Email Alerts is such a pain and in the online version not possible at all. I really hope MS will give us better options on this! Another idea is to send the Alert via Webhooks instead of Email/SMS only. See here: https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/18532921-allow-alerts-beeing-sent-as-webhook-and-not-only