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Email Template API

When a message is generated from a template, Identity Manager makes the implicit objects below available to the message. These objects let you insert instance-specific information into a message by calling methods in the Email Template API.

A template can call the methods in any of the following objects:

• _contentType. Specifies the contentType for the email.
• _priority. Specifies the priority for the email.
• _to. Adds recipients to the message’s To field.
• _cc. Adds recipients to the message’s cc (send copy to) field.
• _bcc. Adds recipients to the message’s bcc (send blind copy to) field.
• _subject. Specifies the subject of the email.
• _encoding. Specifies the encoding for the email.
• _additionalHeaders. Allows you to specify extra email header attributes in the email template.
• template. Lets you add a string of text to a message from lines of JavaScript code.
• _util. A utility object.
• _eventContextInformation. Contains information about the event generated by the current task, such as event name and approval status.
• _taskContextInformation. Contains a collection of information about the current task, such as task name, organization name, and constituent events.

These objects are described in the following sections.