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OpenAthens Ideas Portal

We're always looking for ways to improve our products, and we'd love your input to help us make that happen. Your suggestions will guide us in deciding where we should focus our future research and development.

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  • Librarians (Identity Providers): Share ideas that help organisations that manage user identities and provide access to online content and services. This includes improving the experience for students and researchers.

  • Publishers (Service Providers): Share ideas for organisations that offer content and services.


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Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 2, 2025

Email templates - how to create more

I would like to suggest an enhancement to the current email template functionality, specifically the ability to create and assign customised email templates based on user groups.

Currently, the system uses a generic email template for account creation (with activation required), but this does not fully meet the diverse needs of users who are assigned to different groups. For example, users may belong to various courses with specific rights, or they may be professors or external users, each requiring different messaging for account activation.

It would be beneficial to have the ability to automatically send different activation emails based on the group a user is assigned to. This would allow for more tailored communication, improving the user experience and ensuring that each group receives the appropriate information.

I believe this enhancement would be valuable not only for our use case but potentially for other libraries and institutions as well. I would appreciate it if this feature could be considered for future development.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Something to improve
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