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wilderichsophus
Adept
10 years ago

Email Template - Getting User First Name From the Input

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...
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TariqHussain
Boss
10 years ago

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}

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wilderichsophus
Adept
10 years ago
Hi tariq,

I apologise for the late reply.

I have been turning your recommended snippet upside down. I am afraid the HTML email template that sits inside Studio -> Text Editor -> Email Text does not execute API call.

I am still researching for answer.

Thank you.