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Converting Your Email Drafts and Templates to the Latest Version

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Olga Klenner

If you still have any legacy drafts or templates that were created with an older version of the Email Designer, this article explains how to find them and convert them to the latest version.

Differences Between Email Designer Version 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0

There are some key visual differences to make it easy to determine which version of the Email Designer you are using.

The first indicator will be a "Version 1.0" or "Version 2.0" tag beside the draft name. If it is a Version 3.0 draft you will not see this tag as it is just to identify legacy versions. 

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Editing With Email Designer 2.0

  • A sidebar on the left (1) contains the drag-and-drop blocks, along with all block settings
  • A fixed font control box appears at the top (2)
  • Live email preview underneath (3)

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Editing With Email Designer 3.0

  • A sidebar on the left contains Block Layouts, Elements, and Quick Blocks (1)
  • Live email preview in the center (2)
  • Settings located on the right sidebar (3)

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Why Should I Upgrade to the Latest Email Designer?

As part of our effort to constantly improve our product, we recently released an all-new Email Designer.

Here are some of the things you can expect when you upgrade:

More Flexibility - With customizable blocks, enhanced styling settings, and adjustable padding, you have much more control over how your emails look and can create newsletters that would have been impossible in the old designer.

Built in-house, from the ground up - Our new Email Designer was completely rebuilt from the ground up, in-house. This means that as any issues arise, we can implement quick fixes rather than waiting for a third party to fix them. 

New features - Email Designer 3.0 now has all the capabilities of the older versions and more. Moving forward all new features will only be added to the new version of the designer, and not the legacy versions. 

Ongoing support - We will no longer be actively maintaining the legacy versions of the designer. Any customer requests, limited functionality, or bugs in the legacy versions will not be updated. 

How to Upgrade  

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  1. In the Employee Email web app, open your list of Email Designer templates.
  2. Select a template you'd like to convert and click Create Draft.
  3. Click Open draft with Email Designer 3 and give it a name.
  4. Click the sharing icon to convert the draft to a new Email Designer 3.0 template.
  5. On the dropdown menu that appears, select Save as template.
  6. Name your template and choose a folder you'd like to keep it in.
    You are now able to create new drafts based on this updated template and share it with other members of your team.

Your original template will not be deleted or altered. You can always revert back to the original version if you like.

Formatting issues can occasionally occur when converting from Version 2.0 to Version 3.0. If you experience any problems, our support team is here to help.

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