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Email Template OWNER info OR Outlook Signature

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I have created some email templates for emails that are sent automatically once a Lead enters our CRM System.  These Leads are generated automatically from parsed emails received from Lead portal sites.  Each Lead is automatically assigned a sales rep as an "owner" of the record. When the emails are generated, I want the signature of that OWNER to be at the bottom of the email as if that person sent the email. Unfortunately, in the Email Template form, the only option for info like; email, title, phone number, etc., is for the current USER, not the record OWNER.  How do I do this? When entering data into a workflow, you have the option to add {Owning User} data, why not in an email? 

Also, I read where since we are using CRM for Outlook, when an email is sent on behave of a user (like in this case) Outlook is supposed to insert that users Signature (as defined in Outlook) to the bottom of the email message.  This is not happening for us.  Even though our users have signatures defined, they are not being inserted.

We are Office 365 E3 users with CRM 2013 online, Outlook 2013 (all office 2013 products), IE 11, Win 7.  Any assistance would be great.  I would hate to have to add fields in the Lead entity for the Owners Info.

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  • Royal King Profile Picture
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    You can add Lead owner to the email template by clicking on the Insert/Update fields -> Add-> select Lead -> Owner

    And inset the owner in the template like

    thanks

    {lead: Owner}

    This will add signature based on Lead ownership

  • multiguy Profile Picture
    465 on at

    Thanks Chita, unfortunately, that's the only Owner info that is available.  I want to put the Owners Title, Phone number, Email address, etc. Anything from their USER record.  If I choose USER instead of LEAD in the Record Type dropdown, it chooses MY info.  Even though I'm not the owner of the record or the workflow.

    Other thoughts?

  • Royal King Profile Picture
    27,686 on at

    EMail template does not have to access related record information on the template. You could use workflow to send email where you have  access to all the related record information to populate on the email .

  • multiguy Profile Picture
    465 on at

    ??? I'm not sure I understand. Can you explain this?

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    Royal King Profile Picture
    27,686 on at

    EMail template does not allow adding information from the related records  for example  inserting  job title ,phone number of owner record. If you want to insert related record infomation on the email record create a workflow with step send email , if you click on the send email properties , where you can insert related record information to the email like owner email ,job title etc.

  • multiguy Profile Picture
    465 on at

    True, but then you can't use HTML like you can in an Email Template.  Plus, it defeats the purpose of having a template.  I have several places in the workflow to use that particular template.  Very efficient.  But if I have to create the email in the workflow itself, I'll have to recreate (or copy and paste) the entire email in to different parts of the workflow.  Very inefficient and a waste of space. Sorry, I'm venting! This just seems inconsistent and poorly thought out on Microsoft's part.

    Anyway, thanks for your help.  I guess I'll mark your last answer as the answer.

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