SendGrid Email Send

This is an email send adaptor for SendGrid, which enables sending personalized emails from prebuilt templates. A template of an email can be created with variables that can be personalized per person so each email can address a person by name or have specific content that is relevant to them.

This is a parameterized graph template in which SendGrid has different pricing models depending on the amount of emails sent and contacts stored. There is a free trial account that allows for 100 emails to be sent per day, which never expires. 

Package contents

Graphs

• SendGrid Email Send

Schema

{
	"sendgrid": {
		"inputs": {
			"subject": "",
			"toEmail": "",
			"fromEmail": "",
			"templateId": "",
			"substitutions": ""
		},
		"results": "",
		"emailBody": ""
	}
}

Setup 

• Create a SendGrid account
• Create an API key for your project 

• Save the key in a password manager because SendGrid will not show it to you again later on

• Configure the SendGrid Email connection with the following details:
  

• Follow the instructions for the setup of the Application Parameters Graph Template

• Insert the the API key into the appParams table using the following SQL:

INSERT INTO appParams(paramKey, paramValue, paramType, description) VALUES
('sendGridApiKey', 'API KEY GOES HERE', 'string', 'This is the API key for SendGrid');

• Drop the graph into a project and populate the parameters required by the graph

• parameters are string values except for substitutions
• substitutions need to be a JSON array of the variables, and the replacement values

{
	"%body%": "Hello World!",
	"%name%": "John Doe"
}