Visualforce component for VF email templates

[jkincaid-dbservices]

Problem: Visualforce email templates did not have a clean way to add the unsubscribe link without creating additional formula fields that would parse the URL and title into separate fields for injecting into the template via merge fields.

Solution: There is now an UnsubscribeLink Visualforce component that can be added to the Visualforce email template in the HTML email body. Example:

<messaging:emailTemplate subject="This is a test" recipientType="Contact" >
  <messaging:htmlEmailBody >
     Congratulations!
     This is your new Visualforce Email Template.
     <c:UnsubscribeLink recipientId="{!recipient.Id}"></c:UnsubscribeLink>
   </messaging:htmlEmailBody>
</messaging:emailTemplate>

This template would output

Congratulations! This is your new Visualforce Email Template. Click here to unsubscribe.

The component only needs one parameter: the recipient's ID, which will be either the contact ID or the lead ID of the contact/lead you are sending the email to.

Unaddressed Issues This solution does not address text emails nor Visualforce text email templates. Text emails cannot hide a link with a title and would need to use the raw URL.

[salgsstyrke]

I love this! Thank you so much, Jeremiah! Leaving it open becuse We need to add instructions on how to use this to the instructions doc, and I think it would be helpful to include an email template in the package.