HTML Reply (StaffCP) To Customer Email - Broken

Discussion in 'Installation, setup, upgrading and importing' started by ERIK TRUNKL, Mar 29, 2011.

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  1. ERIK TRUNKL Member

    Hello There,

    After looking around here: http://forums.kayako.com/threads/html-emails-broken-4-01-139.25384/ and here http://forums.kayako.com/threads/update-problem-from-179-203-outgoing-email.25837/ I decided to open my own issue thread.

    1. Abstract

    In Kayako 4, like in version 3, in StaffCP when we type the message (reply) to our customers they receive it in your e-mail (copy of our message typed in StaffCP) and they can see it too in your Control Panel (Cliente Ticket View).

    If we typed a message with HTML tags, they appears either StaffCP, Client Ticket View and in customer e-mail copy of message, and it works fine.

    2. The Issue

    Now In version 4 of Kayako it not works. If we type a message with this tags, even it enabled in AdminCP and HTML tags allowed too, StaffCP and Client Ticket View can see the message perfectly, but the copy of message sent to customer email SHOW the code, even if I change the option on AdminCP to "No Processing".

    3. The Solution

    Up to now, nothing. But, here my opiniom:

    As in Kayako version 3, the 4th version of Kayako should be works like version 3 (all releases), sending the message to the customer with HTML and CRLF working great. But up to now, don't.

    4. ScreenShots

    Here go some Screenshots about my problem. How it appears in StaffCP, Client Ticket View and how it comes in customer email inbox.

    Additionally, Screenshots about my Configuration.

    4.1 - Messagens

    5-0001.JPG 5-0002.JPG 5-0003.JPG

    4.2 - Configuration

    5-0004.JPG 5-0005.JPG

    I hope my issue have a fix very soon, it's very important for all of us!

    Since now, thank you for your assistance!

    Regards,
    ERIK TRUNKL, Mar 29, 2011
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  2. ERIK TRUNKL Member

    Hey,

    Nobody?

    =/
    ERIK TRUNKL, Mar 31, 2011
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  3. teejayuu Established Member

    Any progress with this?
    teejayuu, Apr 5, 2011
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  4. ERIK TRUNKL Member

    @teejayuu,

    Believe, nothing. Any reply about...

    A simple thing like this, just stop works in V4...

    =S
    ERIK TRUNKL, Apr 6, 2011
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  5. Paul Wouters New Member

    Just have a look at the following http://dev.kayako.com/browse/SWIFT-793
    I opened a ticket for this problem. I did some test together with a kayako support technician.
    Seems that the mail are sent in plain text and that only a few email clients convert the plain text links to an HTML link
    (ea. gmail does the conversion correctly).

    We will wait to upgrade our version 3 until they solve this problem.
    Paul Wouters, May 4, 2011
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  6. David H Member

    We have the same issue and can't apply the fix because it breaks the mail parser.
    David H, May 10, 2011
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  7. Evert New Member

    Did anybody found a solution for this issue yet ? We've just upgraded from V3 to V4 and are faced with this same issue.
    Evert, Jan 18, 2012
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  8. Eddie Loh New Member

    I still facing this issue till today. any solution yet?
    Eddie Loh, Mar 22, 2012
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  9. todd_e_williams New Member

    This issue is still open so to get it some attention I've filed it as SWIFT-2707. Feel free to vote, comment, add detail, etc.
    todd_e_williams, Aug 20, 2012
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    • Kayako Staff

    Gary McGrath Kayako Staff

    I have tested this and it seems to be working perfectly in all my tests ( for plain text or html, depending on how you are composing the reply )

    n.b. this is for the latest version 4.50.00
    file:class.Controller_Ticket.php
    location: __apps\tickets\staff

    replace the file with the one attached

    Gary

    Attached Files:

    Gary McGrath, Aug 21, 2012
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  11. todd_e_williams New Member

    Gary,

    Thank you for letting me know that version 4.50 STABLE was just released. I've asked our server admin to upgrade our 4.40 installation this weekend. However, I'm a little unclear whether your response implies that this issue is fixed in 4.50 and therefore the patch you've provided is not needed for that version or if the patch is still required. Can you please clarify? I ask because SWIFT-2707 is still unresolved but notes the patch being posted here. Therefore I assume the patch is required to resolve the issue in 4.50 as well. Correct?

    Thanks!
    Todd
    todd_e_williams, Aug 29, 2012
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    • Kayako Staff

    Gary McGrath Kayako Staff

    Hi Todd,

    That is correct, this is not within any of the stable release builds, and the patch I created (above) I did with the 4.50 version of kayako, so you need to be on the latest build for the file to work.

    what the file actually does is scans the post reply contents for any sign of basic html ( such as <br> <font> tags etc.. ) if it finds them, it switches the outbound email into html mode rather than text mode.

    Gary
    Gary McGrath, Aug 29, 2012
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  13. Eddie Loh New Member

    Hi, Can anyone tested the patches is it working?
    I had test on my v4.50 but it seems that it's not working, probably any other setting I need to set before that?
    Eddie Loh, Sep 9, 2012
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    • Kayako Staff

    Gary McGrath Kayako Staff

    Hi Eddie,

    How are you testing it? the code check looks for some common HTML codes in the staff reply, and if it finds them, it enables html mode, e.g. looking for <p> or <br> etc..

    Gary
    Gary McGrath, Sep 9, 2012
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  15. Eddie Loh New Member

    I had update to 4.51.1891, anyone somehow I try to put <img src="image url" /> in staff reply.
    But I still can't get the image to display in the email replied to customer, all the setting has been done as told
    Do you need to login to my Kayako and simulate the issue?
    Eddie Loh, Nov 25, 2012
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  16. Alexey Chuenko Established Member

    Not working for me either. I have tried "Strip tags" / "No Processing". Still not getting HTML formatting even with simple code:

    Code:
    <font color=red><b>test</b></font>

    This is how it renders in Outlook:

    Code:
    <font face="Candara, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="3">&lt;font color=red&gt;&lt;b&gt;text&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;<br />
    Alexey Chuenko, Feb 1, 2013
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    • Kayako Staff

    Gary McGrath Kayako Staff

    Hi there Alexey,

    The strip tags and no processing affect incoming, this change is to allow actually adding html to the reply window in the staff CP, and then having that send out in html.

    There is a check added in the file I posted:

    if (preg_match("/<(\s+)?(div|p|span|br|font)([\s]+(.*)|[\s]*\/)?(\s+)?>/i", $_POST['replycontents'])){
    $_isHTML = true;
    }

    It basically scans the reply contents for the tags listed, and if they are found, it converts the outbound email to use html.

    Gary
    Gary McGrath, Feb 1, 2013
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  18. Alexey Chuenko Established Member

    Gary, in Settings -> Tickets it clearly states:

    Also I've applied your fix and unfortunately it has no effect.
    Alexey Chuenko, Feb 1, 2013
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    • Kayako Staff

    Gary McGrath Kayako Staff

    Hi Alexey,

    did you rebuild your cache after updating the file? ( admin cp, diagnostics, rebuild cache )

    I just tried your example "<font color=red><b>test</b></font>" after making the change and my staff reply came out showin red text in outlook

    Are you using a staff reply when testing it?

    Gary
    Gary McGrath, Feb 1, 2013
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  20. Alexey Chuenko Established Member

    Actually I've used "Create new ticket" function. With staff reply it worked!
    Could you alter the fix to work with "Create new ticket" as well.
    Does Kayako plan to fix it permanently in future releases?
    Alexey Chuenko, Feb 1, 2013
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