Adding images to an email body in NWC

  • 18 November 2020
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I was recently approached by a customer asking if there was a way to add an image into the email body of an NWC email. While the rich text controls let you do a certain amount of formatting (like lists and bullet points, or heading fonts), sometimes you just want to have more control over what goes into the email body.

 

The solution here does require a little bit of light HTML, but it's honestly so simple, you can definitely get it set up even without any HTML or programming experience. The trick is, to set a text variable with the HTML tag for an image. Here's the code I used in my sample:

 

<img src="https://gallery.nintex.com/assets/images/Community_Logo.png"/>

 

You are going to need to find a place to host the image. If it's a company logo, you might not have to look any further than your own company's website. Just be sure to copy the image URL.

 

The action you're going to need to use is "Set a Variable Value". You'll then copy and paste the HTML code above, and update the URL with the one for the image you want to use.9474iAB9A572CF5F29D1D.png

 

Now, all you need to do is add the variable (Image HTML in this example) to your email body:

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And that's it! You're finished. When you send the email, the body will include the image. 

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You can of course make this as fancy as you need to. You can add more HTML to align the image, change the size, whatever you need to do! I also want to reiterate that this concept can be applicable to anything else you might want to do with the email body, all you need to do is put together some HTML.

 

Hope this was helpful! Comment below if you have any questions!

Shout out to Dave for giving me the idea to write this!


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I see this post is a couple years old so maybe that’s why it doesn’t work for me because it just shows broken image like this:

Should this still work in today’s version of Automation Cloud workflows?  I’m wondering if it’s the location of the image.  I used the Site Assets library and gave permission to Everyone except external users.  I’m going to see if I can find a better location that would be truly open to Everyone on a web server tomorrow.

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Hi @cdpisdg 
The images are working on my side. But I have attached them here, hope that helps! 

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I got it to work once I changed the location.  Thank you!!!

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Happy you got it working! 

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