Hey gang,
I have some email templates for new users I’d like to use, I’ve pushed them to the root of my git and refer to them as email/invite.html in identity settings, but when I go and add myself I get the default template still. My repo root is my build directory, so I that’s not the issue.
If anyone has had this issue or just knows the solution cause they are at that level of cool then I’d really appreciate any help or ideas.
Thanks
I’d still bet we are not finding the files; that’s the usual reason for not using them. Good start that you have them deployed - that is one that some people miss 
. Mind linking me to your site’s identity page so I can take a look?
@fool apologies for hijacking this thread but have an issue where one email template is being found (the invitation) but the other (password recovery) not (it’s not sending out any email). Both templates are deployed to the same path, and are being referenced correctly in settings. Even tried pointing both paths to the same working template but to no avail.
Is there a special condition for the password recovery email that I’m missing?
Hey, sorry for missing @fool 's response. My issue ended up being that my templates weren’t really deploying to the folder I thought they were in production (forgot to merge a branch). Silly problems on my end.
@fool sure, is there a way to message you (the application is not yet ‘live’)
Nobody else can use your site ID unless they are collaborators on your account, so is safe to share here. It’s on your general settings page for the site.
Thanks, it’s 98b336e1-0197-4a0b-9ca5-b59a950cea09
Also currently I have set the recovery back to its default template, but whenever I use the path /emails/recover.html (which is publicly accessible) it won’t sent any recovery emails out.
Thanks for that detail! I can see the file in place and it should work fine. When you try to use it in a test and it fails, could you save a precise timestamp and timezone for the attempt so I can look in our system error logs for you? I don’t really know any easier way to debug it so hopefully there’s an error logged that will guide us, but our logs are huge (1.5TB/day) so I can’t really search around for it easily…
Hi, I also encounter the same issue (templates not being used by the identity).
I can see that the templates are deployed (https://dpsg-toelz-83646.netlify.com/_identity/invitation.html for the invitation for instance) and the settings seem correct:
I just sent a test E-Mail for which the subject was fine, but the content was the default one (timestamp: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:26:02 -0500).
Looks like you need a leading / on that filename, since we “fetch” it via HTTP and http://yoursite_identity/invivation.html is not a valid URL
It works great, thank you!
I think the documentation (Identity-generated emails | Netlify Docs) could be improved:
Current state:
All Identity-generated emails have basic templates built in. You may customize them by creating new templates and publishing them to a path on your site, then specifying the path (relative to the site domain) to the template in Settings > Identity > Emails .
Suggestion:
All Identity-generated emails have basic templates built in. You may customize them by creating new templates and publishing them to a path on your site (they must be accessible after deployment), then specifying the path (relative to the site domain:
/_identity/invitation.htmlfor instance) to the template in Settings > Identity > Emails .
And add a link to this documentation at the beginning of the Settings > Identity > Emails section (currently there is only one link near the top, pointing to Authenticate users with Netlify Identity | Netlify Docs)
Thank you for sharing! I’ll ask the docs team to look at your suggestion - thanks for taking the time to write it!
@dpsg-toelz, Thanks for your suggestions! Our eternal struggle with docs is keeping them detailed enough to cover most use cases, but concise enough that people will actually read them! I’ve made a PR to add some extra detail without getting too repetitive.
I’ll file an issue to add another docs link to the UI. I love making the UI more instructive where we can, because that’s where people are working! For example, we have an extra hint about how to write your custom file path as a placeholder in the UI for setting the path:
Updated docs are now published!
Hi Guys, I am new to all of this and learning as I go. I am struggling to get the template to deploy/upload & then be accessible after deployment. I have it in the root of my site but it does not seem to be working @dpsg-toelz - Do you have any advice for a newbie Thanks
which site is this concerning, samuel?
Good Morning @perry,
This one: pensive-galileo-93ca02
Hi @perry I have managed to get the template deployed how ever I am now getting an error when I click the link:
Unable to verify user token t: User not found at…
Any advice welcomed 