🐛 Bug Report: Error when copy/paste template code to email editor - Failed to extract variables

[lucafaggianelli]

🐛 Bug Report: Error when copy/paste template code to email editor - Failed to extract variables

[linear]

NV-3689 🐛 Bug Report: Error when copy/paste template code to email editor - Failed to extract variables

[YugfeldID]

@lucafaggianelli you can paste template code into Custom code tab in the Email editor, it works for me

[YugfeldID]

Also, it seems like the problem occurs because when we type in the in-app editor text like this:
The expense {{expense.name}}

it is represented in DOM like this:

<span>The&nbsp;expense&nbsp;</span>   
<span >{{</span>
<span> expense.name</span>
<span >}}</span>

and after copying and pasting into email editor, 'data/html' will be pasted like in the example above. But email editor is not rich text editor, so when the app tries to find variables it parses HTML tags and can't find variables.

I assume it will be proper to prohibit pasting any 'data/html' into email editor not only because variables are not parsed correctly, but also because all styles and fonts are pasted with text now and there are no controls to clear them.
If it's okay, I can do it.

[lucafaggianelli]

Yeah I imagine it's something like that. I agree with your idea of blocking the pasting of html but on the other side it would be cool to let a user to copy the message from one editor to another, that in my opinion is a common case. So in this case the copy from the editor should copy a data/text.

In any case I'm thinking about moving to the echo version where I can use react email (I already have the templates).

Thanks for taking a look!

[YugfeldID]

Yes, I agree, I meant the same: prohibit paste 'data/html' but still allow to taste 'data/text'. So in case of copying from the editor 'data/text' should be pasted.
Let's wait for novu team response, if this approach is okay, I can implement it.