Daily Digest | Axero Documentation

This page describes the daily digest in Email Template Manager. If your site still uses the older Email Templates editor, see Daily Digest Email instead. Email Template Manager explains the difference and how to tell which you have.

The Daily Digest email summarizes what happened in a person's spaces over the past day, so they can catch up on what they missed and follow it back to the content.

Customize the Daily Digest

To customize the daily digest, navigate to Control Panel > System > Email Templates and open the Daily Digest email template.

The default daily digest email starts with the community name and a friendly greeting. Then you'll see a repeater to cycle through each of the person's spaces. The space name is prominently displayed before showing its activities.  

Nested in the space repeater is an activity repeater that cycles through each activity for the space. In the default setup, each activity entry includes the name of the activity, the user who performed it, and a brief description. The receiver will see entries like "John Doe | Liked a photo album: Marketing updates," which tells them who made the update and what was updated. The image on the left of the activity is the avatar of the person who performed the action. This structure allows recipients to easily see what's happening in each group and who is involved.

At the bottom of the email, there is an explanation on how the recipient can change which spaces are included and a link for the recipient to stop receiving the digest all together.

You can directly edit the template, which makes customization quick.

1. Subject and Body: You can customize both the subject line and the body of the email using tokens which can be selected from dropdown menus for dynamic, relevant, and personalized content.
   
   Available tokens include the display name for the recipient and all of the person's profile field information, content details (content count, author display name, body, category, and more), space details (name, description, member count, URLs), activity details (date, summary text, user's display name, user's avatar image URL, user's profile URL), and general information (application URL, community name, current date, current year, default header, and styles).

2. Details: Provides a description of the template and includes information on the types of content that are included in daily digest. This list is used on the left-hand template filter and cannot be changed.
   
   

3. CC: You can specify additional recipients for the email.
   
   

   • Recipient's supervisor: Add the recipient's supervisor to the CC list.
   • Specific people: Add specific people by name or username.
   • Specific emails: Add specific email addresses.

4. Settings: In the settings section, you can configure the specifics of the daily digest email:          
   
   

   • Send start time: Set the start time in the site's Localization Settings for when the email should be sent. 
   • Include Top Level Community: Choose whether to include activities from the top level community.
   • Ignore people's email notification preferences: Override individual "Do not send me notifications" preferences for the daily digest only to reach people who may not want general system emails but do want the digest. This does not override their digest email preferences.

   You can select the specific activities to be included in the daily digest email, such as creating, updating, joining spaces, liking, disliking, rating, replying to topics, voting in surveys, RSVPing to events, voting on ideas, assigning cases, and changing case statuses.    

5. Community wrapper: Select a community wrapper to apply a predefined template that includes elements such as the company logo and footer to ensure consistent branding.
   
   

6. Language: Write the template in more than one language, and each person receives it in the language they chose.
   
   

7. Test: Before finalizing your daily digest email, save the template and test it by sending it to selected recipients. Start typing the recipient's name in the Recipients field and select the desired recipient from the list that appears. Once you’ve chosen the recipient, click the Send button to send the test email. 
   
   If the template is not saved, the Save & Send button will appear instead. This allows you to save the template and send the test email simultaneously. This process ensures the test is run with the latest template.
   
   

8. Version History: Version history lets you see and compare every earlier revision of the template, and who made it.
   
   

9. Save Template: Once all fields are filled in, click "Save Template" to store your new email template.

Related pages

• Weekly Digest (the same settings for the weekly digest)
• Email Template Manager (for wrappers, CC recipients, and tokens, which every template shares)
• Daily Digest Email (if your site still uses the older Email Templates editor)
• Customize Activity Email Templates (change the wording of the activity emails)