Features like automations and snippets often need to generate dynamic text.

For instance:

• Setting record fields
• Sending email messages
• Responding to chat messages
• Sending text messages
• Executing HTTP requests
• Generating notifications
• …and so on

The content of this text may need to vary depending on any number of factors – the current worker, record, automation inputs, day of week, etc.

In a traditional programming language, you typically generate text output like:

print("Hello, " + firstName + "!");

This is cumbersome when you’re dealing with a lot of text.

Instead, Cerb scripting is a full-featured templating language based on Twig¹. A templating language makes the simple assumption that everything you type is text output until it encounters a special command.

The example code above would instead be written as:

Hello, {{first_name}}!

Topics

• Variables
• Strings
• Arrays and Objects
• Dates
• Conditional Logic
• Operators
• Loops
• Regular Expressions
• JSON
• XML
• Commands
• Functions
• Filters
• Tests

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