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Do you hate that Workday’s Notification Designer isn’t compatible with alerts yet? If so, you’re certainly not alone 😅. BUT…

Don’t let this deter you from utilizing alerts!

(ICYMI, Notification Designer allows you to create image-rich, beautifully formatted emails for business process, benefits, candidate notifications, etc. More to come on this next week).

You actually can add logos and images to your alert email notifications—without HTML. Here’s how…

Create an Email Template.

While Workday’s Notification Designer currently supports just 22 notification types, Email Templates support nearly twice as many:

⚠️ WARNING: If your organization is using alerts without an Email Template, within the next 5 minutes, you may just upgrade alert aesthetics for your entire workforce 😜

After reading today’s newsletter, you’ll know how to create and deploy an Email Template for your alerts… so you can say buh-bye 👋 to robotic, imageless alert emails while we await Notification Designer’s potential expansion.

Before we dive in… if you missed our last two newsletters on alert setup, check em’ out here: 7-step alert setup guide and next-level alert setup tips.

And with that, let’s get to it! 😎