Editing a message template - Amazon Pinpoint

Editing a message template

You can open a message template for editing in two ways: while you're authoring a message that uses the template, and by using the Message templates page. This topic explains how to open and edit a template by using the Message templates page.

If you edit a template, Amazon Pinpoint might apply your changes to existing messages that use the template and haven't been sent yet, such as campaign messages that are scheduled to be sent at a later time. This depends on whether you edit the active version of the template and how you configured the messages that use the template. For more information, see Managing versions of message templates.

To edit a message template

  1. Open the Amazon Pinpoint console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Message templates.

  3. On the Message templates page, choose the template that you want to edit. The template page opens and displays information about the template. It also displays the contents and settings for the active version of the template.

  4. Choose Edit.

  5. Under Template details, use the version selector to choose the version of the template that you want to use as a starting point for your changes. If you choose the most recent version of the template, you can save your changes directly to that version of the template. Otherwise, you can save your changes as a new version of the template.

  6. Make the changes that you want. You can change any of the template's content or settings, except the name of the template. To change the name of the template, you can create a copy of the template, save the copy with the name that you want, and then optionally delete the original template.

  7. When you finish making changes, do one of the following:

    • To save your changes as a new version of the template, choose Save as new version. To help make sure that your changes don't affect any existing messages, we recommend that you choose this option.

    • To save your changes as an update to the most recent version of the template, choose Update version. This option is available only if you chose the most recent version of the template in step 5. If you choose this option, your changes might affect existing messages that use the template.