Novu•13mo ago

Is it possible to use groupBy with step.events?

Pretty much title. I have a workflow with a digest running, and I followed the docs for the count excluding individuals:

{{#each step.events}}
  {{#if @first}}
    {{this.name}}
  {{else}}
    {{#if @last}}
      and {{@index}}
    {{/if}}
  {{/if}}
{{/each}}
followed you!

{{#each step.events}}
  {{#if @first}}
    {{this.name}}
  {{else}}
    {{#if @last}}
      and {{@index}}
    {{/if}}
  {{/if}}
{{/each}}
followed you!

But in this case, this is for a one-time event. I am trying to notify messages received, like in a chat. So the same user can send many messages, that got digested and sent. The problem in that snippet, in my situation, is that if I send 5 messages, I will receive the notification as Person1 and 4 other sent a message, but I was the one that sent the 5 messages. I was thinking about using the groupBy title, but since I'm having the digest and doing a each step.events, i got stuck. Can someone help or know if this is possible?

4 Replies

Pawan Jain•13mo ago

Hi @Obscene Burrito groupBy can be used to group the array items in one group by propery you can use array length for counting messages https://docs.novu.co/content-creation-design/handlebars-helpers#using-array-length-as-count

Obscene BurritoOP•13mo ago

Yeah, i know. My question is if it's possible to use groupBy with #each step.events. As I mentioned before, this is what happens nowadays: The problem in that snippet, in my situation, is that if I send 5 messages, I will receive the notification as Person1 and 4 other sent a message, but I was the one that sent the 5 messages. and i want to have the unique values in this case

Pawan Jain•13mo ago

@Obscene Burrito could you share your payload ?

Obscene BurritoOP•13mo ago

yes! this is what i'm doing:

{{#equals step.total_count 1}}
 {{#each step.events}}
  You have new messages from {{contactLabel}}.
 {{/each}}
{{else}}
 Open your inbox to view recent messages.
{{/equals}}

{{#equals step.total_count 1}}
 {{#each step.events}}
  You have new messages from {{contactLabel}}.
 {{/each}}
{{else}}
 Open your inbox to view recent messages.
{{/equals}}

` but i'd like to do something like:

{{#equals step.total_count 1}}
 {{#each step.events}}
  You have new messages from {{contactLabel}}.
 {{/each}}
{{else}}
  {{#each groupBy step.events.??? "contact"}}
    Open your inbox to view recent messages.
  {{/each}}
{{/equals}}

{{#equals step.total_count 1}}
 {{#each step.events}}
  You have new messages from {{contactLabel}}.
 {{/each}}
{{else}}
  {{#each groupBy step.events.??? "contact"}}
    Open your inbox to view recent messages.
  {{/each}}
{{/equals}}

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Is it possible to use groupBy with step.events?