Shapes

Reshape and enrich records

Build text

Renders a text template with placeholders from the record into a field.

Nodes › TransformOpen in Neblex
Good for
Messages, subjects and file names
Role
Works on the records in a flow
Find it in
Nodes › Transform

When to use it

  • Compose email subjects, chat messages or file names from record values.

Reach for something else when

Render markdownWhen the text should become formatted HTML.

Example

Build the message "Order {{id}} for {{customer.name}} has shipped" and post it to Slack.

  1. ShipEngine
  2. Build text
  3. Slack

How it works

Settings
Template, for example Order {{id}} for {{customer.name}}; Into field [text].
Note
A missing path renders empty; lists and objects render as JSON.
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Add it to a flow

  1. Open the flow from Build › Workflows.
  2. Open Nodes and find Build text under Transform, or search for it. Click it or drag it onto the canvas.
  3. Drag from the previous step's output handle to its input, then open its settings with ✎ Edit.
  4. Run the flow and click the step to see the records it received and produced.

More in Reshape and enrich records

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