How do I get current transactional email name?

Question

I want to display a custom text in the header.html template for different transactional email templates (order,account,password ....). My idea is to include a block:

{{block type='core/template' area='frontend' template='trans_emails/custom.phtml' type=$trans_template_name}}

Actually i don't know from where I should get the trans. email name. to pass it in the custom.phtml file. In that file I will put some conditions which text will be displayed. My question is how do I get the current transactional email template name ?

thx

Answer 1

See sales related template Here:

System->Configuration->Sales Emails

For customer related template see here:

System->Configuration->Customer Configuration

About transactional emails:

1. By default the templates are in app/locale/en_US/template/email where en_US is the locale code configured for the store.
2. They can be loaded into the database and edited using an editor within the browser. If an override is done that way, they are no longer loaded from the filesystem.

So first decide, if you want to keep them loading from the file system (and thus be able to version them) or from the database (so the merchant can easily edit the layout).

The footer and header are special:

The template is configured via the system configuration System > Configuration > [General:Design] > Transactional Emails. By default it's set to "Default from locale" which refers to the file app/locale/en_US/template/email/html/header.html. For more detail see here.