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Alert tokens

Makes an alert email dynamic, using the same {{Token name}} mechanism as report subject lines, so the message reflects the event that actually triggered it rather than staying generic.

While editing an alert, select Insert token wherever you can type - the subject or the body - and pick one from the menu, the same {{ }} picker used throughout KPImailer. A token resolves to its live value at the moment the alert fires: which task or report triggered it, whether it succeeded or failed, and when.

An alert watching a nightly reload task sets its subject to {{Task name}} - {{Status}}, so a failed run arrives in the data team’s inbox as “Nightly sales reload - Failed” instead of a generic “Alert triggered” subject they’d have to open to understand.