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Use notification templates
Use templates in contact points to customize your notifications.
In the Contact points tab, you can see a list of your contact points.
To create a new contact point, click New.
Note: You can edit an existing contact by clicking the Edit icon.
Execute a template from one or more fields such as Message and Subject:
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Use notification template For more information on how to write and execute templates, refer to Using Go’s templating language and Create notification templates.
Click Save contact point.
