Variables in User Invite Template

Users & Roles
1

I’m sending user invites from my front end (with the code below), and would like to pass a couple variables to the User Invite Template - email address and app name. Is this possible?

var emailBody = {
    "first_name":"Jo",
    "last_name":"Satriani",
    "email":"satriani@gmail.com",
    "confirmed":false,
    "is_active":true,
    "is_sys_admin":false,
    "role_id":1
};
$.ajax({
    beforeSend: function(request) {
        request.setRequestHeader("X-DREAMFACTORY-SESSION-TOKEN", sessionStorage.SESSION_TOKEN);
        request.setRequestHeader("X-DREAMFACTORY-APPLICATION-Name", "admin");
    },
    type: 'POST',
    url: 'http://myServer.cloudapp.net/rest/system/user?send_invite=true',
    data: JSON.stringify(emailBody),
    cache: false
});
2

The fields in the just-created user object can be referenced in the email template. See the default user invite template in the Config–>Email templates section of the admin console.

Hi {first_name},...
3

Yes, this works for first_name in the user invite, but when I include {email} in the same template it just prints “{email}” in the resulting email, even though I’m sending an email field and value in the object.

4

I still haven’t found a solution. To be clear, I’m not just using a normal email template - I want to send variables when I create a new user, which triggers the assigned invite template to be sent.

I looked a bit at /opt/bitnami/apps/dreamfactory/htdocs/vendor/dreamfactory/lib-php-common-platform/src/Resources/User/Register.php and tried a couple things to get the email address to be available in the invite template in the same way first_name, confirm_code, etc. are, but no luck so far.

Can anyone direct me on what to edit in order to allow printing the email address of the created user in the invite template?

Thanks!

5

See line 201 in vendor/dreamfactory/lib-php-common-platform/src/Resources/System/User.php

$_userFields = array( 'first_name', 'last_name', 'display_name', 'confirm_code' );

It only makes these fields available. You can add email to the list.

I have created a bug report to make this more flexible in the future.

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6

Perfect, thanks Todd! I’ll work with the same file to see about adding additional custom variables, but the email address was the most important one.

7

You can also use the {to} variable, as I found out the hard way.

8

Thanks hassen_isa. That’ll save me from having to update those php files each time I upgrade DF.

9

It would be really nice if I could find all kind of system variables the system supports in mail templates, I can’t find any mention of the {to} variable in the dreamfactory documentation for example.

The {to} variable is not mentioned here: https://wiki.dreamfactory.com/DreamFactory/Features/Lookups