Alert Email-Templates
An alert that sends an email uses a template to render the actual email.
Subject
Enter the subject-line that is used in the alert-email. It may contain any of the placeholders that are documented below.
Body
Enter the emails body either as HTML or as Plaintext into the body-field. You may use any of the placeholders that are documented below.
Placeholders
In the Email-subject or -body you can use placeholders to dynamically fill-in values from the alert-context. BiG EVAL uses the handlebars-syntax.
Placholders or control-instructions are always written between two opening curly brackets and two closing curly brackets.
The following example shows how to use the ID and the name of the testcase within a H1-tag.
<h1>{{Test.TestId}} - {{Test.Name}}</h1>
The result of this template may look like following:
<h1>123 - Mein Testfall</h1>
Formatting Date and Time values
Some of the variables/properties provided by the alert-context are DateTime-types. If you don’t use any special formatting-instructions (documented below), it will be rendered as UTC.
Example in UTC:
<p>{{Run.StartedAt}}</p>
Formatting Date and Time in UTC may not be very user-friendly depending on the situation. That’s why we provide some helper-extensions for handlebar.
| Helper | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| UtcToServerTime | Converts a UTC based DateTime value into the TimeZone of the server using the default-regional-settings of the server. | {{UtcToServerTime Run.StartedAt}} |
| UtcToServerTime | Converts a UTC based DateTime value into the TimeZone of the server and formats it in a specific format using the default-regional-settings of the server. | {{UtcToServerTime Run.StartedAt 'G'}} |
| UtcToServerTime | Converts a UTC based DateTime value into the TimeZone of the server and formats it in a specific format using the specified regional-settings. | {{UtcToServerTime Run.StartedAt 'G' 'en-us'}} |
Formatting Numeric Values
Format numeric values using the following handlebar-helpers.
| Helper | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Formats a value using standard numeric format strings or userdefined format strings using the regional-settings of the BiG EVAL server. | {{Format Statistics.ExecutedCount 'G'}}or {{Format Statistics.ExecutedCount '#0.00'}} |
| Format | Formats a value using standard numeric format strings or userdefined format strings using specified regional-setting. | {{Format Statistics.ExecutedCount 'G' 'en-us'}} |