Help Create Email Templates

[thinkingserious]

There are a lot of great templates here, but we could always benefit from more :)

[Soundug]

Hi! Is there anything I can contribute to this issue to fix it. This is my first year of Hacktoberfest and I would like to work on this. Thanks!

[Misiu]

@thinkingserious @Soundug more templates are more than welcome 👍 but ideally template builder should be more advanced, like Mailjet or BeeFree.io. In my CRM I have a list of variables that I can use to build templates, but ideally, I'd like to have the option to define a list of variables inside SendGrid template editor (variables per template, not for specific version). This way the user will be able to add variables just by selecting them (or double clicking) from the list and when template will be saved variables inside the template (added by the user) could be validated against that list that was defined for the template. Hope this all makes sense 😄 I'm not sure if this is a good idea for Hacktoberfest, but hopefully yes.

[aroach]

Interesting so are you thinking that the dynamic template variables should be items that are more visible in the editor controls rather than manually typing them in?

We can check with the PMs on that team to see if they’ve considered something like this. We try to strike a balance between features that can be immediately grokked by a marketer and the power of Developer aspects.

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@thinkingserious https://github.com/thinkingserious @Soundug https://github.com/Soundug more templates are more than welcome 👍 but ideally template builder should be more advanced, like Mailjet or BeeFree.io. In my CRM I have a list of variables that I can use to build templates, but ideally, I'd like to have the option to define a list of variables inside SendGrid template editor (variables per template, not for specific version). This way the user will be able to add variables just by selecting them (or double clicking) from the list and when template will be saved variables inside the template (added by the user) could be validated against that list that was defined for the template. Hope this all makes sense 😄 I'm not sure if this is a good idea for Hacktoberfest, but hopefully yes.

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[Misiu]

@aroach yes, that's my idea :) Imagine You have two people, a developer and a designer. The developer will prepare a list of variables that designer can use in the email template. If designer will make a typo when entering a variable by the hand he might create an invalid template with a buggy variable.

Having a list of variables (that can be defined for each template) would allow the designer to: -have the list inside editor - he won't have to look on another list in another software -quickly add a valid variable, by drag or double-click -validate template on save (to quickly find invalid variables if they are entered by hand)

Some time ago I've created a template editor for SMS messages (in WinForms). Variable list and variable validation was the first improvement I did, because of many mistakes users made while entering variables by hand.

I think that many SendGrid users will benefit from such an improvement 😃

[Misiu]

@aroach any feedback from PMs?

[Misiu]

ping 😏

[aroach]

Hey @Misiu -- so sorry for dropping the ball here. Let me share and get back to this thread.

[aroach]

@Misiu at this time, there aren't immediate plans to add that kind of functionality. However, the PM was interested in learning more, would you be interested in talking with them?

[Misiu]

@aroach thanks for the info :) Sure, I'd like to discuss my idea with PM's. I'll send You my contact info via email.