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KB0719147

How to configure and display 'Sent/Received Email' in the activity stream/log


28385 Views Last updated : Sep 6, 2023 public Copy Permalink English (Original)
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KB Summary by Now Assist

Issue

Customers and TSEs often look for information on how to enable the 'Show email details' link.

In earlier releases (upto San Diego) this was known as 'Sent/Received Emails' on an Activity stream. 

See below image(before Tokyo):

 

From Tokyo release onwards this is known as "Emails - autogenerated" and "Emails - correspondence"

See Image (from Tokyo):

Release

All releases

Resolution

The following steps will enable you to view the "Sent/Received Emails" prior to Tokyo and "Emails - autogenerated" and "Emails - correspondence" from Tokyo onwards in the activity stream:

1) Ensure that the following property value has the right role added so the user with the role can view the email option (Show email details)

    glide.ui.activity.email_roles

2) The email sending property 'glide.email.smtp.active' should be set to true. Note, it does not matter even if you see emails being sent from Email logs (sys_email), the 'Show email details' will not show unless this property is enabled.

3) If you are testing on an OOB Instance, please set an email address, eg: employee email address just for testing purposes in the system property 'glide.email.test.user'.

4) Make sure the 'Sent/Received Emails' or "Emails - autogenerated" and "Emails - correspondence" checkbox is ticked on the Activity Stream filter (see the images in the Description section).

Now you can test this by logging a new incident and notice the email activity is now visible in the activity stream.

Note that another alternative on an OOB instance with email sending disabled is to navigate to the sys_email table, locate the emails related to the record you are using and update their type to "sent".  These will then show up in the activity stream if "Sent/Received Emails" or or "Emails - autogenerated" and "Emails - correspondence"is enabled in the Activity Stream filter.

 

Related Links

When viewing the email information from other modules, eg: HR you might need to specify roles in the first property.


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