Template Language
Briskine uses the Handlebars templating language to support personalized and dynamic content in templates.
You can use all of the built-in features of Handlebars, in Briskine templates.
Syntax
Handlebars uses curly braces for wrapping expressions. The simplest Handlebars expression is what we call a variable in Briskine.
{{to.first_name}}
When you insert a template, Briskine will automatically replace the expression/variable with a different value.
Expressions can also be helpers or block helpers (e.g., for inserting dates or conditional statements).
Escaping expressions
Because curly braces have a special meaning, Briskine tries to replace anything wrapped in {{ }} with a variable or a helper.
If the expression looks like a helper call, but Briskine has no helper with that name, you'll see an error instead of your template:
To write curly braces as regular text, add a backslash (\) in front of the opening braces. Briskine will insert the text as you wrote it, without the backslash:
Expressions without an error
You won't always see an error. When an expression is a single word, like {{Invoice}}, Briskine first looks for a helper with that name, and then for a variable. If it finds neither, the expression is replaced with nothing at all:
Escaping works the same way here. Add a backslash in front of the opening braces to keep the text as you wrote it:
You'll find examples for the most used Handlebars features in the Briskine Help Center.
For information about Handlebars internals or advanced features, see the Handlebars documentation.