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A new communications experience for the enterprise
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include Stream Permalink in email notifications #197

Open lmb244 opened 14 years ago

lmb244 commented 14 years ago

include stream permilink (the full URL) in email notifications so when you get multiple notifications from the same stream you don't have to open them up to know it's from the same link

billwolckenlmco commented 14 years ago

I would recommend taking a different approach to this. It is already possible (at least in Outlook) to hover over the link and see what it points to. Making the main text of the link be the URL would make them rather ugly. Even with that, the user would have to read the group's shortname or person's account id out of the URL. An approach that would be both better looking and (I think) more helpful would be to update the initial messages to include the name of the stream, e.g. in a message like "Sonya Taylor commented on your message" append "in the International Healthcare stream" or "in John Doe's stream". That would be more user-friendly.

Note that my recommended approach would require a smarter template engine to do it reasonably (see http://groups.google.com/group/eureka-streams-dev/browse_thread/thread/308cdd356d408a5b), but we need that already.