Letterhead

Represents formatting options for the letterhead in an email template. Letterheads define the look and feel of your HTML email templates. Your HTML email templates can inherit the logo, color, and text settings from a letterhead. For more information, see “Creating Letterheads” in the Salesforce online help. This type extends the Metadata metadata type and inherits its fullName field.

File Suffix and Directory Location

The file suffix for letterheads is .letter and components are stored in the letterhead directory of the corresponding package directory.

Version

Letterheads are available in API version 12.0 and later.

Fields

With the exception of logo, and horizontal and vertical alignment, all of these fields are required.

Field Name	Field Type	Description
available	boolean	Required. Indicates whether this letterhead can be used (`true`) or not (`false`), for example, in an email template.
backgroundColor	string	Required. The background color, in hexadecimal, for example `#FF6600`.
bodyColor	string	Required. The body color in hexadecimal.
bottomLine	LetterheadLine (enumeration of type string)	Required. The style for the bottom line. Valid style values include: `color`. The color of the line in hexadecimal, as a string value. `height`. The height of the line, as an int value.
description	string	Text description of how this letterhead differs from other letterheads.
fullName	string	The internal name of the letterhead, based on the name, but with white spaces and special characters escaped out for validity.
footer	LetterheadHeaderFooter	Required. The style for the footer.
header	LetterheadHeaderFooter	Required. The style for the header.
middleLine	LetterheadLine	Required. The style for the middle border line in your letterhead. Valid style values include: `color`. The color of the line in hexadecimal, as a string value. `height`. The height of the line, as an int value.
name	string	Required. The name of the letterhead.
topLine	LetterheadLine	Required. The style for the top horizontal line below the header. Valid style values include: `color`. The color of the line in hexadecimal, as a string value. `height`. The height of the line, as an int value.

LetterheadHeaderFooter

LetterheadHeaderFooter represents the properties of a header or footer.

Field	Field Type	Description
backgroundColor	string	Required. The background color of the header or footer in hexadecimal format.
height	DashboardComponent[]	Required. The height of the header or footer.
horizontalAlignment	LetterheadHorizontalAlignment (enumeration of type string)	The horizontal alignment of the header or footer. Valid values are: `None` `Left` `Center` `Right`
logo	string	The logo which is a reference to a document, for example `MyFolder/MyDocument.gif`.
verticalAlignment	LetterheadVerticalAlignment (enumeration of type string)	The vertical alignment of the header or footer. Valid values are: `None` `Top` `Middle` `Bottom`

LetterheadLine

LetterheadLine represents the properties of a line.

Field	Field Type	Description
color	string	Required. The color of the line in hexadecimal format.
height	int	Required. The height of the line.

Declarative Metadata Sample Definition

1swfobject.registerObject("clippy.codeblock-0", "9");<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<Letterhead xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
3    <available>true</available>
4    <backgroundColor>#CCCCCC</backgroundColor>
5    <bodyColor>#33FF33</bodyColor>
6    <bottomLine>
7        <color>#3333FF</color>
8        <height>5</height>
9    </bottomLine>
10    <description>INITIAL</description>
11    <footer>
12        <backgroundColor>#FFFFFF</backgroundColor>
13        <height>100</height>
14        <horizontalAlignment>Left</horizontalAlignment>
15        <verticalAlignment>Top</verticalAlignment>
16    </footer>
17    <header>
18        <backgroundColor>#FFFFFF</backgroundColor>
19        <height>100</height>
20        <horizontalAlignment>Left</horizontalAlignment>
21        <verticalAlignment>Top</verticalAlignment>
22    </header>
23    <middleLine>
24        <color>#AAAAFF</color>
25        <height>5</height>
26    </middleLine>
27    <name>SimpleLetterheadLabel</name>
28    <topLine>
29        <color>#FF99FF</color>
30        <height>5</height>
31    </topLine>
32</Letterhead>
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