Google Email footers - table layout

[timbo343]

Each of our schools has their own footer formatted in a table however I need to update one of them and when i do so, i cannot get it to format back to a table.

 

When i inspect the element / view the source code, i can see that the footer formatter is set so that the configured footer is set in a table.

 

Question is, how on earth do you set the footer in Google Workspace to format as a table?

[jthompson]

Strange one. The official line is that the Append footer option in Google Admin > ... > Gmail > Compliance doesn't support HTML content.

 

https://apps.google.com/supportwidget/articlehome?hl=en-GB&article_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.google.com%2Fa%2Fanswer%2F2364576%3Fhl%3Den-GB&assistant_id=generic-unu&product_context=2364576&product_name=UnuFlow&trigger_context=a

 

Are you sure that it's a footer and not a part of their individual signature?

[timbo343]

Strange one. The official line is that the Append footer option in Google Admin > ... > Gmail > Compliance doesn't support HTML content.

 

https://apps.google.com/supportwidget/articlehome?hl=en-GB&article_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.google.com%2Fa%2Fanswer%2F2364576%3Fhl%3Den-GB&assistant_id=generic-unu&product_context=2364576&product_name=UnuFlow&trigger_context=a

 

Are you sure that it's a footer and not a part of their individual signature?

 

Positive!

 

Here is a screenshot of what is currently configured.

 

 

I've had a scoot around on the net and one article says:

 

https://www.eringibson.co/email-signature-gmail/

 

But this doesn't work under compliance, yet the other schools have had it configured.

[jthompson]

The support article specifically says that the editor doesn't support HTML, and it appears to strip out table formatting if you paste in an HTML table, so I wonder if that footer has been added via the API, or was added before the ability to paste in HTML content was restricted. I don't think that there is an API covering stuff like compliance rules, etc. for Gmail. The Gmail API appears to be for mailbox stuff, rather than org-wide admin console stuff. You migt be out of luck.

 

I would recommend prepping a new footer that isn't table-based, and keeping but disabling the existing one.

[timbo343]

Ah great!

 

That throws all our signatures out! Thanks again Google!!

[jthompson]

It's a bit of a Steve Jobs "don't hold it like that" thing, but I guess your content should be considered part of the signature block rather than a footer, which is most likely intended for legalese discalimer stuff rather than branding. But then it's not as if Google have provided any signature management tools, either. I created my own Sheets/AppsScript solution for signatures, which I'm hoping to be able to share on GitHub at some point (it's based partly on this - https://caspan.com/2021/10/google-app-script-set-gmail-signature-template-on-org-users/).

[timbo343]

It's a bit of a Steve Jobs "don't hold it like that" thing, but I guess your content should be considered part of the signature block rather than a footer, which is most likely intended for legalese discalimer stuff rather than branding. But then it's not as if Google have provided any signature management tools, either. I created my own Sheets/AppsScript solution for signatures, which I'm hoping to be able to share on GitHub at some point (it's based partly on this - https://caspan.com/2021/10/google-app-script-set-gmail-signature-template-on-org-users/).

 

I'd be interested to see it. The footers were designed before we joined the MAT and the person who designed them has since left the trust.

 

I imagine it was a way of easily configuring school signatures from each school meaning that users didn't have to create their own when new users started at each school.