Customising the Happy Birthday message

Customising the Happy Birthday message

On the day of a child or employee's birthday, the system will automatically send out a Happy Birthday message to the email address of, respectively, a parent/carer with Parental Responsibility, or directly to the employee. You can view and edit the email templates we use for this from within System or Global Settings. 
  1. In the top right click on  and then pick from either System Settings or Global Settings.
  2. Click on Email Templates & Letters.
  3. Go to Children > Happy Birthday Message or Employee > Happy Birthday Message depending on which one you'd like to edit.
  4. Click on the  icon.
  5. Type the message you want into the text box. Entering [[ will give you a list of available placeholders. Placeholders enclosed in square brackets will be substituted with information from the system when the email is received. You can find out what each placeholder does in eymanage here.
  6. Attachments, such as images, can be added by dragging and dropping files into the grey box, or by clicking Browse.
  7. When you're done, click Update.