Trigger not working when email is not specified in the payload

I created a subscriber by mentioning email in the payload. When call trigger API with the subscriber ID, I would expect it to send email to the email address associated with the subscriber. However, I don't see that happening. I only receive email when I mention the email property in the payload for the Trigger API. Am I doing anything wrong?
22 Replies
Pawan Jain
Pawan Jain2y ago
No, It should send email without payload also
ujwal1373
ujwal13732y ago
This is the payload I'm using to create the subscriber: { "subscriberId": "abc", "email": "xyz@xyz.com", "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Doe" } And this is the payload for the trigger API: { "name" : "templateName", "to": { "subscriberId": "abc" }, "payload": {} }
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Novu_Bot2y ago
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Pawan Jain
Pawan Jain2y ago
please check if email exist with this subscriber https://docs.novu.co/api/get-subscriber/
ujwal1373
ujwal13732y ago
I just checked and it doesn't have. How do I associate email to a subscriber?
Gali Baum
Gali Baum2y ago
Are you using novu.subscribers.identify to create a subscriber? https://docs.novu.co/platform/subscribers#creating-a-subscriber
Pawan Jain
Pawan Jain2y ago
I guess he is directly using api
ujwal1373
ujwal13732y ago
Yes, I'm using API to create a subscriber
Pawan Jain
Pawan Jain2y ago
It should not happen, I frequently create subscriber using api, It works fine for me
ujwal1373
ujwal13732y ago
The response payload to the POST /v1/subscribers contains email, but when I do a GET I don't see email in the response @Pawan Jain what is the required payload for creating a subscriber with email
ujwal1373
ujwal13732y ago
@Pawan Jain I was referring to the same documentation and this is the payload I have been using to create the subscriber { "subscriberId": "abc", "email": "xyz@xyz.com", "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Doe" }
Pawan Jain
Pawan Jain2y ago
Wait, in a meeting we can debug together on screen session what happening wrong When you hit this API, after successful, you see email in response?
ujwal1373
ujwal13732y ago
yes I see it in the response.. but when I do a GET using this subscriber ID, I don't see the email ok so from the create subscriber response, what is the subscriber id that should be used in the trigger - id or subscriberId { _id: "_id", firstName: "firstName", lastName: "lastName", email: "email", phone: "phone", avatar: "avatar", locale: "locale", subscriberId: "subscriberId", channels: ["channels"], isOnline: true, lastOnlineAt: "lastOnlineAt", _organizationId: "_organizationId", _environmentId: "_environmentId", deleted: true, createdAt: "createdAt", updatedAt: "updatedAt", __v: 0 } I was using the id
Pawan Jain
Pawan Jain2y ago
subscriberId: "subscriberId"
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