Hi Lithium Community,
A quick enquiry, we are currently trying to update the default user registration email template with a custom HTML template.
We are stuck at trying to find a way to pull-in user submitted First name field.
$user.first_name and $first_name doesn't seem to work.
Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
Thank you.
Welcome to the Lithium Community. I'm sure you'll find this a very useful place.
I'm not sure if you can achieve what you want to do, but I would guess that the vast majority of communities would use $user.login (username) as that's what community members are generally going to be referred to on the community - that's their chosen "name".
Also, have you made completing the first name field when registering mandatory for community members? If not then obviously using the first name might not be a great idea for the notification.
Jason
wilderichsophus if this is possible to call api from your context, you could easily get user first_name and last_name.
<#assign apiVersion = "2.0"/>
<#assign user_id = 'user-id'>
<#assign userQuery = "select first_name,last_name from users where id = '${user_id}' "/>
<#assign usersData = rest(apiVersion, "/search?q=" + userQuery?url).data.items[0]/>
${usersData.first_name}
${usersData.last_name}Give Kudo if you find my post helpful.
was you able to run your code in email template?
Just looking at the reply bellow about not possible to use API calls in email templates.
Alos, I believe first name and last name can be only vissible at Admin level...
Let us know.
Thank you.
