Placeholder/variable in email template

[mcfung]

Hi, thank you for such a great library.

May I ask how can I implement placeholder/variable in the email template?
My use case is to create a welcome email template, but the name of the user is a variable. So that when I send the welcome email, I can insert the name of the user for each recipient.

Currently one of the possible way is that I can put something like {{userName}} in the content section, and then replace it right before send. Am I correct?

Thanks in advance.

[jordanisip]

Hi Mike, at the moment EmailBuilder.js does not support variables within content inputs and we do not have plans to support this in the forseeable future.

Your instincts are correct – we recommend looking into processing blocks with LiquidJS to support those variables (eg. {{username}}). If you are curious, this is exactly what we do on our 'pro' version of our template builder on Waypoint. You are welcome to create a free trial workspace to poke around :)

[mcfung]

Thank you very much!