How to import an HTML signature template into CodeTwo email signature management software

Problem

You want to import an HTML email signature template into CodeTwo email signature management software.

Solution

You can easily import HTML email signature templates into your CodeTwo signature software using the HTML Snippet function in the web-based signature template editor.

• Exporting HTML signature code – see this section if you’re using this free online signature generator and want to get the HTML code from there. If you already have your signature’s HTML code, you can skip this section.
• Importing HTML code into CodeTwo Email Signatures 365
• Importing HTML code into CodeTwo Exchange Rules

Exporting HTML signature code

Before you start uploading the HTML code to the email signature management software, you need to copy/export it from its source. If you use our free email signature generator for your signatures and want to move these signatures to your CodeTwo signature tool, follow these steps:

1. Go to the free email signature generator (Fig. 1.).
2. Choose Exchange Server or Exchange Online as your email platform (1).
3. Pick the template you want to use as your starting point (2) and click Apply your Signature (3).

Fig. 1. Choosing an email signature platform and template in the email signature generator.

4. Click the Generate (1) and Copy (2) button to export the HTML code of your email signature template (Fig. 2.).

Fig. 2. Generating the email signature’s HTML code.

Importing HTML code into CodeTwo Email Signatures 365

After you get the HTML code of your signature, you can import it to the signature rule in the CodeTwo software by following the steps below.

1. Sign in to app.codetwo.com and create a new signature rule as shown in Fig. 3. You can also select and edit an existing signature rule.

Fig. 3. Creating a new email signature rule.

2. If you’re creating a new rule, configure the conditions in the Senders step (plus the Recipients and Keywords steps in the case of a cloud/server-side rule) according to your preferences (learn more about creating signature rules). If you’re editing an existing rule, go straight to the Design step.
3. Go to the Design step and click Edit signature (Fig. 4.) to open the signature template editor.

Fig. 4. Opening the signature template editor.

4. If the rule you are working with does not yet have any signature template assigned, the Signature template library will open automatically first (Fig. 5.). Choose Blank template from the available templates.

Fig. 5. Choosing the blank template in the Signature template library.

5. If you already have an email signature template set up, or have chosen another template, you can open the library by clicking the Templates button and choosing Open template from the drop-down menu (Fig. 6.).

Fig. 6. Opening the Signature template library.

6. When the blank template is loaded into the signature template editor, click the HTML snippet button (Fig. 7.).

Fig. 7. HTML snippet button.

7. Paste the HTML code of your email signature (Fig. 8.) into the Insert HTML snippet window. You can select the checkbox (Fig. 8., item 1) for the program to automatically convert online images referred to in the inserted code to local images. Click Insert (Fig. 8., item 2) to save the HTML code and close the window.

   Important

   Note that only images in the JPG, PNG, and GIF formats can be converted into local (embedded) pictures.

Fig. 8. Pasting the code of an HTML signature template.

8. Back in the editor, replace the personal and company information in the imported signature with the appropriate placeholders (Fig. 9.) Learn more about placeholders

Fig. 9. Replacing imported information with AD placeholders.

9. After replacing all relevant information with placeholders (Fig. 10.), you can further customize the signature, if necessary (see guidelines in the user’s manual).
10. Click Apply & Close to save your signature template and exit the editor.

Fig. 10. The email signature template after replacing personal information with placeholders.

11. Finally, click Save & Publish (Fig. 11.) to save your rule and enable the signature for your users.

Fig. 11. Applying changes in the signature management app.

Importing HTML code into CodeTwo Exchange Rules

Follow the steps below to create a basic rule and import your HTML code into it. Read this article to learn more about working with signature rules.

1. Start the CodeTwo Exchange Rules Administration Panel and create a new signature rule by clicking the +Add button and selecting the type of rule you want to add from the drop-down list (Fig. 12.).

Fig. 12. Creating a new signature-adding rule.

2. Go to the Actions tab and click Edit (Fig. 13.) to open the template editor.

Fig. 13. Editing the email signature rule.

3. In the editor, highlight the whole email signature (CTRL + A), delete it, and click the HTML snippet button (Fig. 14.).

Fig. 14. The HTML snippet button.

4. Paste the HTML code of the signature you exported into the Insert HTML snippet window (Fig. 15.). You can select the checkbox (Fig. 15., item 1) for the program to automatically convert online images referred to in the inserted code to local images. Click Insert (Fig. 15., item 2) to save the HTML code and close the window.

Fig. 15. Pasting the HTML code of your signature.

5. In the editor, replace the personal and company information imported together with the HTML code with the respective placeholders (Fig. 16.).

Fig. 16. Changing the contact information to AD placeholders.

6. After replacing all personal information with placeholders, use the Apply & Close button (Fig. 17.) to apply changes to the template, and close the editor. Optionally, you can use the Preview button (Fig. 17.) to see how the signature looks like for a specific user.

Fig. 17. The Apply & Close and Preview buttons.

7. In the Exchange Rules Administration Panel, click Submit changes (Fig. 18.) to submit the new email signature rule to the Exchange Rules services.

Fig. 18. Submitting changes to your email signature rule.

See also:

CodeTwo Exchange Rules Converter – an easy-to-use tool that allows you to transfer rules and templates from CodeTwo Exchange Rules to CodeTwo Email Signatures 365.