A lot of people have been asking for access to Idea’s merge fields in email templates. With Visualforce Email Templates released in Winter ’09 you can now access Ideas merge fields from within the email templates.

Here is a sample template which shows you how to create this template, and starting use Ideas merge fields with your email templates, to see the sample email template click here

One disclaimer, this is only available with the new Visualforce Email Templates, Ideas merge fields are not currently exposed in regular templates.