Courses User Magic Links (Labs Release) + Password Reset Flow and New Email Templates

What’s New?

User will get the flexibility of setting their own passwords. No more automated password generation!
User-specific Magic Links will be sent across all course emails and triggers to make sure they are able to set their own password.
Redirection to the Set Password page if the user tries to log in without setting their password.
Password field will be deprecated across all templates after this Labs release, even if the password custom field is added to the templates, it won’t be populated.
Introducing loginUrl custom field across all our triggers and email builders for courses, users will have to append this in their template to make sure they receive the magic link.
The password custom field is now removed across all the builders.

Important Notes

What will happen after turning on this feature flag – Courses User Magic Links?

No more system-generated password for users.
Password fields in the existing templates won’t get populated, loginUrl should be used by users to set their passwords.
New default email templates will be sent out to users.

Changes irrespective of this feature flag:

Password Custom field won’t be visible across all template builders and workflow email options, users also won’t be able to add a password field in their new templates.
New Magic links will be sent across all emails and triggers with the custom field loginUrl.

This will be turned on for everyone and will be live in all the locations starting 29th July 2024, post that passwords won’t be generated by the system and we would suggest removing the password custom fields from all your older templates before that.

Forget Password Flow

What’s New?

No more system-generated passwords in your reset password emails, with the new reset link you will be able to set your own password within 2 hours of your request.
Auto Login for users after resetting their own password.

New Default Email Templates