Email Template

An email template is a type of message template that contains content and settings that you can define, save, and reuse in messages that you send through the email channel for any of your Amazon Pinpoint applications. You can use email templates in any type of email message that you create and send by using Amazon Pinpoint.

When you create an email template, you specify the content and settings that you want to reuse in various components of messages that are based on the template. These components, referred to as template parts, can be the message title or subject, the message body, or both. This content can be static text or personalized content that you define by using the Handlebars template system and message variables. When you send a message that’s based on a template, Amazon Pinpoint populates the message with the content and settings that you defined in the template.

The Email Template resource represents the repository of email templates that are associated with your Amazon Pinpoint account. You can use this resource to create, retrieve, update, or delete a message template for messages that you send through the email channel.

Amazon Pinpoint supports versioning for all types of message templates. When you use the Email Template resource to work with a template, you can use supported parameters to specify whether your request applies to only a specific version of the template or to the overall template. For example, if you update a template, you can specify whether you want to save your updates as a new version of the template or save them to the latest existing version of the template. To retrieve information about all the versions of a template, use the Template Versions resource.

URI

/v1/templates/template-name/email

HTTP methods

GET

Operation ID: GetEmailTemplate

Retrieves the content and settings of a message template for messages that are sent through the email channel.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
template-name	String	True	The name of the message template. A template name must start with an alphanumeric character and can contain a maximum of 128 characters. The characters can be alphanumeric characters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-). Template names are case sensitive.

Header parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
accept	String	False	Indicates which content types, expressed as MIME types, the client understands.

Query parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
version	String	False	The unique identifier for the version of the message template to update, retrieve information about, or delete. To retrieve identifiers and other information for all the versions of a template, use the Template Versionsresource. If specified, this value must match the identifier for an existing template version. If specified for an update operation, this value must match the identifier for the latest existing version of the template. This restriction helps ensure that race conditions don't occur. If you don't specify a value for this parameter, Amazon Pinpoint does the following: For a get operation, retrieves information about the active version of the template. For an update operation, saves the updates to (overwrites) the latest existing version of the template, if the create-new-version parameter isn't used or is set to false. For a delete operation, deletes the template, including all versions of the template.

Responses

Status code	Response model	Description
200	EmailTemplateResponse	The request succeeded.
400	MessageBody	The request contains a syntax error (BadRequestException).
403	MessageBody	The request was denied because access to the specified resource is forbidden (ForbiddenException).
404	MessageBody	The request failed because the specified resource was not found (NotFoundException).
405	MessageBody	The request failed because the method is not allowed for the specified resource (MethodNotAllowedException).
413	MessageBody	The request failed because the payload for the body of the request is too large (RequestEntityTooLargeException).
429	MessageBody	The request failed because too many requests were sent during a certain amount of time (TooManyRequestsException).
500	MessageBody	The request failed due to an unknown internal server error, exception, or failure (InternalServerErrorException).

POST

Operation ID: CreateEmailTemplate

Creates a message template for messages that are sent through the email channel.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
template-name	String	True	The name of the message template. A template name must start with an alphanumeric character and can contain a maximum of 128 characters. The characters can be alphanumeric characters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-). Template names are case sensitive.

Header parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
accept	String	False	Indicates which content types, expressed as MIME types, the client understands.

Responses

Status code	Response model	Description
201	CreateTemplateMessageBody	The request succeeded and the specified resource was created.
400	MessageBody	The request contains a syntax error (BadRequestException).
403	MessageBody	The request was denied because access to the specified resource is forbidden (ForbiddenException).
405	MessageBody	The request failed because the method is not allowed for the specified resource (MethodNotAllowedException).
409	MessageBody	The request failed due to a conflict with the current state of the specified resource (ConflictException).
429	MessageBody	The request failed because too many requests were sent during a certain amount of time (TooManyRequestsException).
500	MessageBody	The request failed due to an unknown internal server error, exception, or failure (InternalServerErrorException).

PUT

Operation ID: UpdateEmailTemplate

Updates an existing message template for messages that are sent through the email channel.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
template-name	String	True	The name of the message template. A template name must start with an alphanumeric character and can contain a maximum of 128 characters. The characters can be alphanumeric characters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-). Template names are case sensitive.

Header parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
accept	String	False	Indicates which content types, expressed as MIME types, the client understands.

Query parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
create-new-version	String	False	Specifies whether to save the updates as a new version of the message template. Valid values are: true, save the updates as a new version; and, false, save the updates to (overwrite) the latest existing version of the template. If you don't specify a value for this parameter, Amazon Pinpoint saves the updates to (overwrites) the latest existing version of the template. If you specify a value of true for this parameter, don't specify a value for the version parameter. Otherwise, an error will occur.
version	String	False	The unique identifier for the version of the message template to update, retrieve information about, or delete. To retrieve identifiers and other information for all the versions of a template, use the Template Versionsresource. If specified, this value must match the identifier for an existing template version. If specified for an update operation, this value must match the identifier for the latest existing version of the template. This restriction helps ensure that race conditions don't occur. If you don't specify a value for this parameter, Amazon Pinpoint does the following: For a get operation, retrieves information about the active version of the template. For an update operation, saves the updates to (overwrites) the latest existing version of the template, if the create-new-version parameter isn't used or is set to false. For a delete operation, deletes the template, including all versions of the template.

Responses

Status code	Response model	Description
202	MessageBody	The request was accepted for processing. Processing may not be complete.
400	MessageBody	The request contains a syntax error (BadRequestException).
403	MessageBody	The request was denied because access to the specified resource is forbidden (ForbiddenException).
404	MessageBody	The request failed because the specified resource was not found (NotFoundException).
405	MessageBody	The request failed because the method is not allowed for the specified resource (MethodNotAllowedException).
413	MessageBody	The request failed because the payload for the body of the request is too large (RequestEntityTooLargeException).
429	MessageBody	The request failed because too many requests were sent during a certain amount of time (TooManyRequestsException).
500	MessageBody	The request failed due to an unknown internal server error, exception, or failure (InternalServerErrorException).

DELETE

Operation ID: DeleteEmailTemplate

Deletes a message template for messages that were sent through the email channel.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
template-name	String	True	The name of the message template. A template name must start with an alphanumeric character and can contain a maximum of 128 characters. The characters can be alphanumeric characters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-). Template names are case sensitive.

Header parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
accept	String	False	Indicates which content types, expressed as MIME types, the client understands.

Query parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
version	String	False	The unique identifier for the version of the message template to update, retrieve information about, or delete. To retrieve identifiers and other information for all the versions of a template, use the Template Versionsresource. If specified, this value must match the identifier for an existing template version. If specified for an update operation, this value must match the identifier for the latest existing version of the template. This restriction helps ensure that race conditions don't occur. If you don't specify a value for this parameter, Amazon Pinpoint does the following: For a get operation, retrieves information about the active version of the template. For an update operation, saves the updates to (overwrites) the latest existing version of the template, if the create-new-version parameter isn't used or is set to false. For a delete operation, deletes the template, including all versions of the template.

Responses

Status code	Response model	Description
202	MessageBody	The request was accepted for processing. Processing may not be complete.
400	MessageBody	The request contains a syntax error (BadRequestException).
403	MessageBody	The request was denied because access to the specified resource is forbidden (ForbiddenException).
404	MessageBody	The request failed because the specified resource was not found (NotFoundException).
405	MessageBody	The request failed because the method is not allowed for the specified resource (MethodNotAllowedException).
413	MessageBody	The request failed because the payload for the body of the request is too large (RequestEntityTooLargeException).
429	MessageBody	The request failed because too many requests were sent during a certain amount of time (TooManyRequestsException).
500	MessageBody	The request failed due to an unknown internal server error, exception, or failure (InternalServerErrorException).

OPTIONS

Retrieves information about the communication requirements and options that are available for the Email Template resource.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
template-name	String	True	The name of the message template. A template name must start with an alphanumeric character and can contain a maximum of 128 characters. The characters can be alphanumeric characters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-). Template names are case sensitive.

Responses

Status code	Response model	Description
200	None	The request succeeded.

Schemas

Request bodies

POST schema

{
  "TemplateDescription": "string",
  "DefaultSubstitutions": "string",
  "tags": {
  },
  "Subject": "string",
  "TextPart": "string",
  "HtmlPart": "string",
  "RecommenderId": "string",
  "Headers": [
    {
      "Name": "string",
      "Value": "string"
    }
  ]
}

PUT schema

{
  "TemplateDescription": "string",
  "DefaultSubstitutions": "string",
  "tags": {
  },
  "Subject": "string",
  "TextPart": "string",
  "HtmlPart": "string",
  "RecommenderId": "string",
  "Headers": [
    {
      "Name": "string",
      "Value": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Response bodies

EmailTemplateResponse schema

{
  "CreationDate": "string",
  "LastModifiedDate": "string",
  "TemplateType": enum,
  "TemplateName": "string",
  "TemplateDescription": "string",
  "DefaultSubstitutions": "string",
  "Version": "string",
  "tags": {
  },
  "Arn": "string",
  "Subject": "string",
  "TextPart": "string",
  "HtmlPart": "string",
  "RecommenderId": "string"
}

CreateTemplateMessageBody schema

{
  "RequestID": "string",
  "Message": "string",
  "Arn": "string"
}

MessageBody schema

{
  "RequestID": "string",
  "Message": "string"
}

Properties

CreateTemplateMessageBody

Provides information about a request to create a message template.

Property	Type	Required	Description
Arn	string	False	The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the message template that was created.
Message	string	False	The message that's returned from the API for the request to create the message template.
RequestID	string	False	The unique identifier for the request to create the message template.

EmailTemplateRequest

Specifies the content and settings for a message template that can be used in messages that are sent through the email channel.

Property	Type	Required	Description
DefaultSubstitutions	string	False	A JSON object that specifies the default values to use for message variables in the message template. This object is a set of key-value pairs. Each key defines a message variable in the template. The corresponding value defines the default value for that variable. When you create a message that's based on the template, you can override these defaults with message-specific and address-specific variables and values.
Headers	Array of type MessageHeader	False	The list of MessageHeaders for the email. You can have up to 15 Headers.
HtmlPart	string	False	The message body, in HTML format, to use in email messages that are based on the message template. We recommend using HTML format for email clients that render HTML content. You can include links, formatted text, and more in an HTML message.
RecommenderId	string	False	The unique identifier for the recommender model to use for the message template. Amazon Pinpoint uses this value to determine how to retrieve and process data from a recommender model when it sends messages that use the template, if the template contains message variables for recommendation data.
Subject	string	False	The subject line, or title, to use in email messages that are based on the message template.
tags	object	False	Note As of 22-05-2023 the tags attribute has been deprecated. After this date any value in the PUT UpdateEmailTemplate tags attribute are not processed and an error code is not returned. The POST CreateEmailTemplate tags attribute is processed. Use the Tags resource to add or modify tags. (Deprecated) A string-to-string map of key-value pairs that defines the tags to associate with the message template. Each tag consists of a required tag key and an associated tag value.
TemplateDescription	string	False	A custom description of the message template.
TextPart	string	False	The message body, in plain text format, to use in email messages that are based on the message template. We recommend using plain text format for email clients that don't render HTML content and clients that are connected to high-latency networks, such as mobile devices.

EmailTemplateResponse

Provides information about the content and settings for a message template that can be used in messages that are sent through the email channel.

Property	Type	Required	Description
Arn	string	False	The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the message template.
CreationDate	string	True	The date, in ISO 8601 format, when the message template was created.
DefaultSubstitutions	string	False	The JSON object that specifies the default values that are used for message variables in the message template. This object is a set of key-value pairs. Each key defines a message variable in the template. The corresponding value defines the default value for that variable.
HtmlPart	string	False	The message body, in HTML format, that's used in email messages that are based on the message template.
LastModifiedDate	string	True	The date, in ISO 8601 format, when the message template was last modified.
RecommenderId	string	False	The unique identifier for the recommender model that's used by the message template.
Subject	string	False	The subject line, or title, that's used in email messages that are based on the message template.
tags	object	False	A string-to-string map of key-value pairs that identifies the tags that are associated with the message template. Each tag consists of a required tag key and an associated tag value.
TemplateDescription	string	False	The custom description of the message template.
TemplateName	string	True	The name of the message template.
TemplateType	string Values: EMAIL | SMS | VOICE | PUSH | INAPP	True	The type of channel that the message template is designed for. For an email template, this value is EMAIL.
TextPart	string	False	The message body, in plain text format, that's used in email messages that are based on the message template.
Version	string	False	The unique identifier, as an integer, for the active version of the message template, or the version of the template that you specified by using the version parameter in your request.

MessageBody

Provides information about an API request or response.

Property	Type	Required	Description
Message	string	False	The message that's returned from the API.
RequestID	string	False	The unique identifier for the request or response.

MessageHeader

Contains the name and value pair of an message header to add to your email. You can have up to 15 MessageHeaders. A header can contain information such as the sender, receiver, route, or timestamp.

Property	Type	Required	Description
Name	string	False	The name of the message header. The header name can contain up to 126 characters.
Value	string	False	The value of the message header. The header value can contain up to 870 characters, including the length of any rendered attributes. For example if you add the {CreationDate} attribute, it renders as YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ and is 24 characters in length.

See also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs and references, see the following:

GetEmailTemplate

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go v2

• AWS SDK for Java V2

• AWS SDK for JavaScript V3

• AWS SDK for PHP V3

• AWS SDK for Python

• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

CreateEmailTemplate

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go v2

• AWS SDK for Java V2

• AWS SDK for JavaScript V3

• AWS SDK for PHP V3

• AWS SDK for Python

• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

UpdateEmailTemplate

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go v2

• AWS SDK for Java V2

• AWS SDK for JavaScript V3

• AWS SDK for PHP V3

• AWS SDK for Python

• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

DeleteEmailTemplate

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go v2

• AWS SDK for Java V2

• AWS SDK for JavaScript V3

• AWS SDK for PHP V3

• AWS SDK for Python

• AWS SDK for Ruby V3