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

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# Use message 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-message-template-9-3.png" caption="Use message template" >}}

For more information on how to write and execute templates, refer to [Using Go's templating language]({{< relref "./using-go-templating-language" >}}) and [Create message templates]({{< relref "./create-message-templates" >}}).

4. Click Save template.