Force.com Platform Fundamentals

Preface
Introducing the Force.com Platform
About the Sample Recruiting App
Reviewing Database Concepts
Building a Simple App
Enhancing the Simple App with Advanced Fields, Data Validation, and Page Layouts
Expanding the Simple App Using Relationships
Securing and Sharing Data
Collaborating with Chatter
Using Custom Workflow and Approval Processes
Introducing Workflow
Workflow in Our Recruiting App
Creating Workflow Rules That Assign Tasks
Creating a Workflow Rule That Updates Fields
Creating a Workflow Rule That Sends Email Alerts
Introducing Approvals
Planning for Approval Processes
Try It Out: Create an Email Template for Approvals
Try It Out: Create an Approval Process
Try It Out: Create Approval Steps
Try It Out: Create Approval Actions
Try It Out: Activate Our Approval Process
Look At What We've Done
Summing Up
Analyzing Data with Reports and Dashboards
Moving Beyond Point-and-Click App Development
Learning More
Glossary
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Try It Out: Create an Email Template for Approvals

Since we've already talked about email templates in Introducing Email Templates, we'll simply include the values that we want to use for the template in the following table. You can build it from Setup, in Communication Templates | Email Templates.

Table 1. The “Recruiting App: New Position Requires Approval” Email Template
Parameter Value
Template Type Text
Available For Use Selected
Email Template Name Recruiting App: New Position Requires Approval
Encoding General US & Western Europe (ISO-8859-1, ISO-LATIN-1)
Description Send notification email to designated approver when new position record requires approval.
Subject New Position Requires Approval
Email Body A new position record has been submitted for your approval. Please visit the link below and either approve or reject it.

{!Position__c.Link}

Thanks!