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Notification Email β€” {{section.url}} placeholder breaks when applied as a hyperlink

Hi FluentCommunity team,

I've found a rendering bug with the Notification Email feature for course lessons.

Summary

The {{section.url}} placeholder works correctly when inserted as plain text, but it fails to render as a clickable link when the same placeholder is attached to text as a hyperlink. Instead of producing an <a> tag with a working URL, the raw HTML is exposed in the email body.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Go to a Course β†’ Lesson β†’ Notification Email editor.
  2. In the email body, type some anchor text (e.g. Open the lesson).
  3. Select the text and add a hyperlink using {{section.url}} as the URL.
  4. Save and activate the notification email.

Expected behavior

The anchor text should render as a clickable link pointing to the lesson URL, e.g.:

<a href="https://…/lesson-url">Open the lesson</a>

Actual behavior

The email renders the raw markup as visible text, something like:

<a href="https://…/lesson-url">Open the lesson

The opening <a> tag is exposed as plain text, and the closing </a> tag is missing entirely. Because the anchor element is never properly formed (and never closed), the text is not rendered as a clickable link, and the {{section.url}} placeholder inside the href attribute is not replaced with the actual lesson URL.

Additional notes

  • Placing {{section.url}} directly in the body as plain text works as expected β€” the URL is substituted correctly.
  • The issue only occurs when the placeholder is used inside a hyperlink's URL field.
  • This makes it impossible to create properly styled call-to-action links in lesson notification emails.

Could you confirm whether this is a known issue, and let me know if there's a recommended workaround in the meantime?

Thanks!

Will look into this (currently we are in vacation).

Yuhei Kuwahata

Tawsif Ahmed RiyadΒ The rendering of the digest email was also broken.

Yuhei Kuwahata, the issues are fixed in dev, thank you.

Yuhei Kuwahata

Tawsif Ahmed RiyadΒ Thank you!