Tips for Triggering Emails for Testing

Hi @steveninfinger I created a Group called “Notification Testing” and assigned some TEST accounts to it in order to maintain control over who should get the test notifications. To get a quick idea of what each short code outputs, I usually start by copying and pasting them all into the body and then sending it out...One thing you want to be mindful of are your test cases...make sure you can predict the flow in order to generate the email/notification that you want otherwise it can get frustrating…

for example: if you want to generate a Course Enrollment email to a user: 

1. make sure that course is identified in the notification settings +
2. Users is selected +
3. your test Group selected

You can also include a power user in your Group when testing if you also want them to receive these however this would require you to use the SAME template but when configuring, you would select Power Users instead if Users...Note that some notifications will require you to select the specific Power User role, not the actual power users so make sure you also have a proper test power user profile you can use to assign to one of your test accounts.

I work on average with about 4-5 test accounts with various configurations to make the testing a little quicker and smoother. Hope this helps...

Those are both great responses! I appreciate it! The Google accounts are a smart touch.