🚀 Feature: Access actor information from notification templates

[richardbutler]

🔖 Feature description

Allow notification templates to access information provided by the actor's subscriber object.

🎤 Why is this feature needed ?

I want to add a simple connection request notification - "John Smith would like to connect". At present, I'm sending { firstName, lastName } as part of the payload, but this is duplicate data as this is also available via the actor (I'm sending { actor: { ... } } alongside the payload: { ... }. It doesn't appear in the default variables when creating a notification template, but it seems like an obvious thing to be able to use, as {{ actor.firstName }}, for example.

✌️ How do you aim to achieve this?

Currently, actor information isn't passed into the template builders, it should be a straightforward change to make this available.

🔄️ Additional Information

I tried various variable accessors in the template builder UI but none of them worked. On submitting a query to Discord, I was asked to create an issue for this use case.

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this feature request has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines

Are you willing to submit PR?

Yes I am willing to submit a PR!

[ainouzgali]

Thank you @richardbutler ! Assigned you :) Let us know if you need anything

[LetItRock]

the actor variables were implemented in this PR and are released in Novu Cloud ;)