It would be useful to have the inability to use custom merge fields in an email template.

Some background on our proposed use this feature and the need it addresses:

Our foundation was attempting to create an email template which can serve as a digital copy of the scholarship award letter we send to recipients. However, we are unable to create a "master" email template that would serve across all opportunities because there is no way to pull in a description of the scholarship each recipient has won.

It would be nice to be able to utilize custom fields from either an application or an approval form. This way, we could then pull information such as a scholarship description, which we have listed on the approval form.

Alternatively, we do have the scholarship descriptions in question listed under the "Applicant Opportunities" tab in our Process Manager, so being able to pull these into an email template from here would be useful as well.