Creating custom Handlebars helper with Mandrill?

Question

Is there a way to define a custom Handlebars helper with Mandrill? Say that I've got an object and the currency is in cents.

  "products": [
    {
      "sku": "hdrPhotos",
      "price": 19000,
      "title": "Unlimited HDR Photography"
    },
    {
      "sku": "panos",
      "price": 2500,
      "title": "Panoramas / Virtuals"
    },
    {
      "sku": "fullVideo",
      "price": 43000,
      "title": "Full Video"
    },
    {
      "sku": "aerialDaytimePhotos",
      "price": 17500,
      "title": "Aerial Daytime Photography"
    },
  ]

I've got this template:

            <!-- BEGIN PRODUCT LOOP // -->
            {{#each products}}
            <tr class="item">
              <td valign="top" class="textContent">
                <h4 class="itemName">{{title}}</h4>
                <span class="contentSecondary">${{toCurrency price}}</span>
                <br/>
                <span class="contentSecondary sku"><em>{{sku}}</em></span>
                <br/>
              </td>
            </tr>
            {{/each}}

I want to take price, which is in cents, and write a custom helper toCurrency that simply divides it by 100.

Custom helpers are easy enough to do in standard Handlebars, but is it possible with Mandrill's utilization of it?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 06 '17 at 07:43

According to the documentation this isn't possible :

"Use Handlebars regardless of whether you're using templates in Mandrill. We'll cover the basics of Handlebars, helpers implemented specifically for Mandrill, and some deviations from and additions to standard Handlebars."

Reference: https://mandrill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205582537-Using-Handlebars-for-Dynamic-Content#using-helpers

There are not even all helpers from handlebar.

Creating custom Handlebars helper with Mandrill?

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