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Email {{FirstName}} or {{Full Name}} parameters for customer
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Firestore-send-email
What feature would you like to see?
Able to specify customer name (first name, last name) in templates/emails.
How would you use it?
I'd like to be able to say "Dear {{FirstName}}," or "Dear {{FullName}}" and have this information directly pulled from the customer record if it is available.
Perhaps I should have been more clear. I'm aware I can use {{variables}} in templates.
However, I typically send using the toUids or bccUids properties of the trigger-email extension. This way I don't have to code up a document read for the UIDs I want to send to.
I imagine this extension is performing customer doc reads to retrieve the email field of the user. It could spare me an extraneous read, as well as having to code the read myself, if the extension could ALSO grab things like first_name and last_name in its existing doc read.
Thanks for the suggestion @DCSnip3r. @dackers86 can you look if this suggestion is technically possible?
Since we have to read the email out of the USERS_COLLECTION anyway, it seems pretty reasonable to be able to access other fields in that document via something like {{user.field_name}}. I like the suggestion!
I'm not sure if anyone on the Firebase team will have time in the near future to implement it, but I think we'd definitely review a PR if someone wanted to add it.
Hi @dackers86 Can you please take a look at https://github.com/firebase/extensions/pull/704 and let me know if any modification is required.
After further discussion, we are placing this back under consideration to see if this type of request gains more traction.
It is quite a technical change which can be handled by developers and could benefit with more developer interest before continuing.
