The Email Dialog Box
This article relates to functionality introduced in TFS 2019 - Version 13
Below is an example of the email dialog box
- The toolbar. The function of each of the buttons is detailed in the table below.
Description | |
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Perform spellcheck on the email | |
Send the email. | |
Copy selected text to the clipboard. | |
Cut selected text to the clipboard. | |
Paste the contents of the clipboard. | |
Undo the last change made. | |
Redo the last undone change made. | |
Apply Bold formatting. | |
Apply Italic formatting. | |
Apply underline formatting. | |
Apply Strikethrough formatting. | |
Opens the colour selector. | |
Apply an indent. | |
Apply an outdent. | |
Left justify the text. | |
Centre the text. | |
Right justify the text | |
Insert numbering. | |
Insert bullets. | |
Insert a link. | |
Insert a horizontal line. | |
Insert a picture. | |
Insert a hyperlink to an image to include in the email. This option is useful to keep the size of your email below the maximum 5MB. |
2. The Client that the comment will be made against. If the email is against an Entity the dialog changes to show the Entity that the email will be written against
3. The current application. This only relates to client emails.
4. The address that the receiver will see the email having been sent to. This is defined in TFS Administration.
5. The recipients of the email. When you click on the button next to To, Cc or Bcc the Email Recipients dialog opens;
When you click on a Contact in the left side of the screen you can then select either To, Cc or Bcc to add them to the relevant sender's section.
You can remove one or all of the recipients from each section by clicking on the Remove or Remove All buttons.
6. Select whether the from address will be Cc'd or Bcc'd.
7. Click on the button to select the template that you want to use for the email.
8. The Subject line for the email.
9. The text body of the email. This will automatically populate with the signature of the user that is logged into TFS.
10. The attach functions to add attachments to the email.
The maximum size of an email cannot exceed 5MB. If the email gets too large the Email Size indicator, at the bottom right, will turn red
and if you try and send the email you will see the following message;
11. Click to Send the email.
12. Click to close the email without sending.