Universal Connection Support in FME Flow: Email Templates

Importing the configuration would be awesome. Right now you have to configure the same settings for each subscription which is a bit annoying.

I think defaulting to the system configuration if no other settings were made could also be an option.

And my IT department just retired it's email server, I now have to reconfigure 42 subscriptions. I was able to do it via the rest api, but I would have been a lot happier to change it in one place and have all the subscriptions updated automatically.

I second jdh suggestion to 'Use System Configuration' or have the fields autopopulate with that, but would add that if I need to change the System Configuration, there should be an option or popup when changing those values to allow me to choose to auto update all Automations/Subscriptions that use the values that are being changed.

I would also add that I would like to see similar Templates implemented for the "Make an HTTP Request" External Action as well. We have been using that to call the Microsoft Teams Incoming Webhook connector to post errors to a Teams channel as opposed to sending emails, which has worked well for us.

I like the idea having our email settings in a custom template.

Was good for subscriptions in 2019 and would be as well for automations today.

It's a bit annoying to copy our emails settings when creating an email tigger or an external action.

Any update on if there are plans to allow users to create their own custom templates for use in Send an Email (External Action) in an Automation?

Would make all our lives easier not having to retype our organization’s credentials every time we add Email to an Automation, 

Hopefully user can change the template settings, and it will automatically apply to all automations that use this template. Sometimes our Exchange server will change and need update ip address of the email server, it really took lots of time to go through all automations and update it’s mail settings. 

Thanks for your comment, ​@brandonguo —yes, that’s exactly the kind of experience we’re aiming for! Automatically updating all dependent automations when a template or connection setting changes would save significant time and reduce chance of error.

To provide an update on this idea: while email configurations are a common use case, we're exploring how to implement a more general solution that applies across all connection types—email, database, web, and more.

Great idea, and as an addition i would say also add MFA support to System Email when using those settings as a default for automations. As outlined in this post: Multi factor authentication on FME Flow System Email error | Community right now System Email SMTP only works when disabling MFA on the account used. This isn't always possible due to IT policies. Would be a great help if this could be implemented!