Allow custom avatar image per message

[jinsley8]

It would be great to allow custom avatar image per in-app message.

This worked before v0.13. I was able to send a custom image with each message. But now it just updates the avatar image for the subscriber Id so if you send an image, all messages for that template will show the same image.

Is it possible to pass a dynamic image URL via template variable here?

[michaldziuba03]

hi @jinsley8
if you want "unique" image for each notification you need to provide unique subscriberId for actor (you can generate own id on your backend). I'm not sure if there is better way - I don't think you can pass dynamic image URL via template variable.

await novu.trigger('my-notification', {
        to: {
            subscriberId
        },
        payload: {},
        actor: {
            subscriberId: "unique-img2",
            avatar: "https://example.com/images/unique-img2"
        }
    });

Result

I send two notifications with some actor.subsriberId and another two with different actor.subsriberId

[jinsley8]

Perfect, this works great! I was using the user's own subscriberId before for the actor value which was the issue.

[michaldziuba03]

the only thing to keep in mind - you may want to ensure actor.subscriberId has different id format than regular subscriber (user), because it still upserts new subscriber and just make sure it doesn't collide with actual user subscriber identifiers.

If it solved your problem, I would suggest to mark this discussion as answered and close it.

[jinsley8]

SOlved, thank you @michaldziuba03