Introduction

Creating new notification or certificate templates has its challenges since rendering (code execution) is happening in a black box where debugging is difficult and no breakpoints possible.

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Throwing explicit exceptions and checking variables whether an object lookup was successful would help with debugging and on live systems to look into issues.

Template for the certificate template:

Other (real world) examples can be found in Git Core repository in

• CustomerAssets\certificateTemplates

• CustomerAssets\notificationTemplates

Example of a ‘Bad’ Template

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Always check if the requested object does exist - check for null. If an object was expected and is required for rendering throw an explicit error with as much detail as possible so debugging and live-site-investigations is easier.

Develop Print Layout

Chrome has the ability to render a print version of a page instead of needing to open the print menu to see the print layout. This could reduce dev time for the print version.

Open Chrome > Dev Tools (F11)-> three dots -> More tools -> Rendering -> emulate CSS media type

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