variables-in-messages.md

Variables in outgoing SMS

Outgoing messages can use Mustache templating to insert certain variables and use certain data formats.

For examples, you can check out the standard config. Note that it uses translation keys for the message contents.

Format filters

For the latest list, checkout the formatters in medic-sentinel

• date : example

Displays dates according to the date_format specified in app_settings. See doc for Moment.js format for details.

• datetime : example

Displays dates according to the reported_date_format specified in app_settings. See doc for Moment.js format for details.

• bikram_sambat_date

Displays dates in Bikram Sambat calendar (most commonly used calendar in Nepal). Currently display format is hardocded to e.g. "१५ चैत २०७३", see code.

Variables you can use (TODO)

You can insert special variables relating to the patient and/or the CHW in the messages.

Sentinel exposes values from the report doc.

• clinic is the nearest clinic parent. Typically clinic type docs are CHW areas. To figure that out, check out for instance the places_by_type_parent_id_name view on medic-client design doc in couch (Bad link? Try CouchDB 1 link).

• contact is the Primary Contact attached to the clinic. To see examples, check out the contacts_by_type view on medic-client design doc in couch (Bad link? Try CouchDB 1 link).

• form fields : sentinel also exposes the fields property of the reports doc, e.g. patient_name and patient_id. That depends on what fields are in the corresponding form. To see reports in your DB and check out what's in fields, look at the reports_by_date view on medic-client ddoc for instance (Bad link? Try CouchDB 1 link).

• fields added by registration transition triggers, like patient_id field added by add_patient_id trigger, expected_date field added by add_expected_date trigger, birth_date field added by add_birth_date trigger.

TODO : What's chw_sms?