grafana/docs/sources/alerting/manage-notifications/template-notifications/use-notification-templates.md

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description: Use notification templates in contact points
title: Use notification templates
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# Use notification templates

Use templates in contact points to customize your notifications.

In the Contact points tab, you can see a list of your contact points.

1. To create a new contact point, click New.

   **Note:** You can edit an existing contact by clicking the Edit icon.

2. Execute a template from one or more fields such as Message and Subject:

   {{< figure max-width="940px" src="/static/img/docs/alerting/unified/use-notification-template-9-4.png" caption="Use notification template" >}}

   For more information on how to write and execute templates, refer to [Using Go's templating language][using-go-templating-language] and [Create notification templates][create-notification-templates].

3. Click Save template.

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