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• separate updating and sending renewal reminders - or at least delay the latter?
• test message templates on individuals or groups

We have a project activating  scheduled jobs has been somewhat delayed, so there are quite a few status updates and reminders about to happen when we do. We'd like to have some sense of how many reminders are going out before they do - hence delaying would be good - is there anything out side of just shutting down mail services that would allow this?


More importantly we need to edit, theme and test the System Workflow messages. How can we:

• get some idea of the untokenized content for each message
• test messages?

I've done quite a bit of work with civimail in the past, and despite it's limitations (hosted images, cross client checking anyone?) at least it's always had a simple test on yrself faclity. Not so here it would seem - unless I'm missing something. Unfortunately this isn't area where the staff concerned will be prepared to fly blind.


TIA

thanks - yes do have a staging environment  - though its slightly dominated by other experiments at the moment, so its messy using it for this process  - but can be done. And what you are saying does resonate with other advice I'm getting - do it all on staging. SO be it.


Thanks again!

TIM