How to pass values from Visualforce email template?

How to pass values from Visualforce email template?

I’m trying to output a link to a product in my email based on the values (year, make, model) that are passed thru the email template to the controller. The query is not returning the correct product and I’m having problems debugging the component controller to see the values that are getting passed in. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

When to use setwhatid in VF email template?

I did some experiments and found that if you have a VF email template, you can use setWhatId even if the targetObjectId is a User. You can do this within a trigger, so you don’t need a separate class method to invoke the Messaging methods. If you have a standard email template, then you cannot use setWhatId if the target is a User.

How to pass parameter to VF email template?

You have a setter method in the class for this variable. in the trigger you create and instance of the class and call – instanceOfClass.setidFTCProduct (id) This sets the value of the variable of in the class to the id of the record.

How big can a Visualforce email template be?

The maximum size of a Visualforce email template is 1 MB. You can’t send a mass email using a Visualforce email template. The {!Receiving_User.field_name} and {!Sending_User.field_name} merge fields work only for mass email and list email and are unavailable in Visualforce email templates.

How to save an email template in Salesforce?

Click Save. On the View and Edit Email Templates in Salesforce Classic page, click Edit Template. Enter markup text for your Visualforce email template. If you are including an image, we recommend uploading it to the Documents tab to reference the copy of the image on our server.

How to use custom controllers in Visualforce templates?

Visualforce email templates can leverage custom controllers to render highly customized content. To do so, include a custom component in a Visualforce email template that uses that custom controller. For example, suppose you want to display a list of all accounts beginning with the word “Smith” in an email template.

How to pass values to merge fields in email templates?

If we are sending the mail using this replace functionality, there is a chance of getting Special Characters at the end of email template becoz we are converting the template to HTML format… will please help me out how to resolve this issue.. Thanks in Advance………

How to pass a parameter to a Salesforce page?

Thanks a lot! You can do this by extension and load the status field value but the problem is when you use it by extension then the standard save button will not work for this field as it will display as different object variable. For that case you have to use custom save method to achieve this functionality.

How to pass a URL to a Visualforce page?

I have a custom button, Close Lead, that redirects the user to a visualforce page. This is the URL of the visualforce page: https://c.cs8.visual.force.com/apex/CloseLeadReason?Status=Lead%20Closed&id=00QL0000001wv7v