Handlebars Function
Hey, I like to add the current date within the template to create a current year copyright text.
Is this possible with handlebars?
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Yes, it's possible to add the current date within the template using Handlebars with Novu. You can use the
dateFormat handlebar helper function provided by Novu to format the date. For example, to display the current year, you can use the following syntax:
This will render the current year in your template. Ensure that you pass the current date to the template in the appropriate variable (in this case, now) when triggering the notification.
Refer to the Novu documentation for more details on handlebars and helpers (1) .is this possible without an variable?
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Sorry, I wasn't able to find any information about your question.
Got it. Tagging @Support for additional help.
Hey @SHG-TV when you say without variable, you mean without passing this in the payload? or without the handlebars variable syntax?
@Tomer Barnea we want to achieve this without passing payload from the trigger.
the use case is to have a self-updated year within a copyright text.
@SHG-TV got it, thanks! I did some testing myself, I cant see it available right now, so you'd have to pass your own as it stand right now. A couple of solutions I can think of, 1 is to add a new handlebars helper, another one is Echo, @SHG-TV did you check out https://docs.novu.co/echo/quickstart#introduction-to-echo ?
@Pawan Jain @Dima Grossmanam I wrong and we can generate year without payload? cc @radek
@Tomer Barnea Yeah, I know eacho, but we are currently not using it.
Would it be an option to add a handlebars helper globally for all?
I think this could be a common use-case
maybe such use-cases can be generally be handled with global variable context, which can be accesed syste wide within all templates
@SHG-TV I think if anything, I would allow to access this as a global variable as you mentioned, @Dima Grossman @radek @Pawan Jain please take a look at let us know what do you think
I think broadly a global context will be the best way to go, but will require more effort. For now easier will be to add a dedicated handlebars helper.
As Tomer mentioned this can be easily achieved with Echo.
For the handlebars helper, i don’t have any estimates, but feel free to submit a PR 🙏
@SHG-TV
Added a github issue for this
https://github.com/novuhq/novu/issues/5376
thanks alot 🙂