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k00k
k00k

Reputation: 17583

Using the sendgrid node-module, how do I send a SendGrid Template Engine email?

I have created a "Thanks for subscribing" email template via SendGrid's Template Engine.

Now, when someone subscribes to my site, I want to send that person that template. Can I do this using the sendgrid-nodejs package?

I don't see anything regarding this in the docs.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4700

Answers (3)

Martyn Davies
Martyn Davies

Reputation: 1511

Yep, it's really easy, you just need to add it in as a filter. Here's how it should look:

var cardEmail = new sendgrid.Email({
  to: "[email protected]",
  from: "[email protected]",
  subject: process.env.SUBJECT,
  html: '<h2>Thanks for requesting a business card!</h2>', // This fills out the <%body%> tag inside your SendGrid template
});

// Tell SendGrid which template to use, and what to substitute. You can use as many substitutions as you want.
cardEmail.setFilters({"templates": {"settings": {"enabled": 1, "template_id": "325ae5e7-69dd-4b95-b003-b0109f750cfa"}}}); // Just replace this with the ID of the template you want to use
cardEmail.addSubstitution('-greeting-', "Happy Friday!"); // You don't need to have a substitution, but if you want it, here's how you do that :)

// Everything is set up, let's send the email!
sendgrid.send(cardEmail, function(err, json){
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  } else {
    console.log('Email sent!');
  }
});

I hope that helps you out. If you need more insight into it, please check out the blog post I wrote about using Template Engine with sendgrid-nodejs.

Upvotes: 14

Krzysztof Kaczor
Krzysztof Kaczor

Reputation: 5588

To make it work with version 4.x.x use this:

var helper = require('sendgrid').mail;
var from_email = new helper.Email('[email protected]');
var to_email = new helper.Email('[email protected]');
var subject = 'I\'m replacing the subject tag';
var content = new helper.Content('text/html', 'I\'m replacing the <strong>body tag</strong>');
var mail = new helper.Mail(from_email, subject, to_email, content);
mail.personalizations[0].addSubstitution(new helper.Substitution('-name-', 'Example User'));
mail.personalizations[0].addSubstitution(new helper.Substitution('-city-', 'Denver'));
mail.setTemplateId('13b8f94f-bcae-4ec6-b752-70d6cb59f932');

Full example

Upvotes: 4

k00k
k00k

Reputation: 17583

It looks like you need to use the SMTPAPI's app(filters) methods for sending of templates. I don't believe it's yet supported by the web API. Here's some docs:

https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/SMTP_API/apps.html#templates

Upvotes: 0

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