# Question: need some help with notifications and some macros
**URL:** https://discussions.eramba.org/t/question-need-some-help-with-notifications-and-some-macros/8656
**Category:** Forum - Software
**Created:** [May 11, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/question-need-some-help-with-notifications-and-some-macros/8656 "2026-05-11T12:30:59Z")
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### Author:  [@Ovidiu](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/Ovidiu)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/question-need-some-help-with-notifications-and-some-macros/8656/1 "2026-05-11T12:31:00Z")
Since the last few updates to Eramba and the new GUI features, our notifications weren’t quite cutting it, so I made some edits and am stumped by the outcome.
So, it’s a notification about upcoming policy review in the next 30 days.
The text contained in the email is basically:
Click this link to read the policy: %SECURITYPOLICYREVIEW\_DOCUMENT\_VIEW\_LINK%
Then click this link: %ITEM\_URL% and leave your Review as a comment.
My colleague and myself then check the comments and create the review.
The problem:
In the emails received the first macro has not been resolved, the second one worked just fine. Since there is no “display a preview” or “send a test email” button, what to do?
There might be formatting issues, due to the online editor Eramba uses. Clicking the “formatting view” gives me a mess of unformatted HTML :-/
I mean I can copy the HTML, fix it and paste it back and then patiently wait for it to trigger again but is there not a better option? I now have to email all recipients who got the email with the broken link again, manually ☹
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### Author:  [@Adrian](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/Adrian)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2026, 9:19am UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/question-need-some-help-with-notifications-and-some-macros/8656/2 "2026-05-15T09:19:27Z")
Agree, having to wait one hour to test the notification is a problem. Changing this is already contemplated in the notifications migration.
> [@Feature - Notifications migration + Slack integration](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/feature-notifications-migration-slack-integration/8404):
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> The current implementation has a number of well-known problems. This post outlines the planned rework. Problems: delayed delivery - waiting for hourly cron test notifications missing - fire on demand form reconfiguration - single unified card lack of modern integrations - slack integration unclear handling of edge cases - deleted user, non existing view/filter Questions: do we need robust editor as we have for policy content? are we letting users to have multiple delivery methods? Slack + …
For now, as a workaround, maybe you could use a comments and attachment notification to test the email body. Since it triggers right away, you could add a comment and flush the queue; that way, you don’t have to wait one hour.
Of course, this is just a workaround for the moment, we are really looking into adding some actual buttons to test the notification or at least a way to see what the actual email body would look like.
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### Author:  [@Ovidiu](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/Ovidiu)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2026, 7:52am UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/question-need-some-help-with-notifications-and-some-macros/8656/3 "2026-05-18T07:52:45Z")
Thanks for taking this request into consideration and for the workaround, that works for me for now.