Possibility to add email templates to a locale and theme

[bartdelvaux]

I don't see any way to translate and customize email templates with code. There is no fallback if I look in the class where the template is set (Magento\Email\Model\Template\Config).

The only template that will be loaded, is the one that is set in the email_templates.xml in the module files. With this it is not possible to:

• Make translations of the email templates
• Customize the email templates for different themes

The only way how I can do this now is to use and configure the email templates in the database. But this is difficult to maintain when developing (no version control, tons of double code, no good editor, a lot of settings, ...). You want to have as less as possible code in your database.

Are there plans to change this behaviour? Maybe we can use the layout system to render the emails (like it is done in some blocks on the new order email).

The email system in Magento 2 is not an improvement of the one of Magento 1. With no ability to translate email templates, it is even worse.

On the following link, is written that there is No ability to match email template to a locale
https://wiki.magento.com/display/MAGE2DOC/Email+Template+Declaration

[sebastian-enz]

+1 - Very important feature.

[hostep]

Just tuning in to quickly mention a module for Magento 1.x which does something similar, maybe this can be ported over to Magento 2 (or used as inspiration)?

https://github.com/yireo/Yireo_EmailOverride
https://www.yireo.com/software/magento-extensions/email-override

[sebastian-enz]

Customizing email templates for different themes is now possible in Magento 2 beta-1.0.0, see Magento\Email\Model\Template\Config::getThemeTemplates().

[bartdelvaux]

I see that it is now possible to add email templates in themes.
There is a translation function to translate strings in the emails so it is no issue to work with multilingual emails in the code.