{user}

Settings

The {user} command allows Text Blaze Business users to include information, known as properties, about the current snippet user in the snippet.

In this case, the snippet user is the member of your organization that's using the snippet.

Defining your own properties

You can define custom properties for each member of your organization.

Custom properties can be defined in the Members tab of the organization and clicking on the gear icon beside the Member Properties column header.

For example, you may want to include employees' names in your organization's snippets. You can do that by first creating a custom name property.

Now you can configure the newly defined name property for each employee individually by clicking on the Edit button next to their name under the Member Propeties column.

Here is an example of configuring two properties for a member of your organization.

Editing Properties

Organization administrators and editors can modify properties for all organization members from the Members tab.

If the property is user editable, individual members can modify their own properties.

Setting a property's name and description

The property name you use is how you will reference that property in your snippets. If your property name is department, you reference the value in a snippet with {user: department}.

The capitalization that you use is important. For example, {user: department} will work, but {user: Department} will not.

Text Blaze does not allow you to change a property's name once set initially.

You can also optionally add a description that allows you to provide additional information to users.

Setting a property's data type and default value

The default value that you set for the property is used if an administrator, editor, or individual member has not yet configured a specific value for the property.

You can also configure the data type of a property.:

There are four data types available:

1. Text: Text properties can be used to represent things like names or phone numbers. You can also specify validation rules using regular expressions.
2. Number: Number properties only accept numeric values. You can configure maximum and minimum allowed values.
3. Boolean: Boolean properties are yes/no values that can be turned on and off.
4. Categorical: Categorical properties allow you to specify a drop-down list of options that the user may select an option from.
5. Dates: Date properties that allow you to select a specific date from a date field.

Built-in properties

Besides allowing you to define your own custom properties, each member of your organization will come with built-in properties by default.

Using {user: email} outputs the email that the user signed up to Text Blaze to join your organization with.