How to use Smarty for change greetings for French?

Question

I need to adapt Greetings in order to fit to French (which has a feminine and masculine for "Dear"). I read on the forum that I should use Smarty and read the short documentation (CiviCRM documentation) but I haven't understood how to use it :(

Where should the following code come (once adapted of course)? In the email source or in the greetings settings?

{capture assign=first_name}{contact.first_name}{/capture}
Dear {$first_name|default:Friend},
{if $first_name}
  Hello, {$first_name}, how are you?
{/if}

My second question is where do I set something like:

WHEN contact_gender IS female THEN contact_greeting IS Chère

Do I have to create any custom fields?

Any help will be very appreciated :)

Answer 1

Try below code

{capture assign=contact_gender}{contact.gender}{/capture}
{if $contact_gender eq 'Female'}
  Chère {$first_name|default:Friend},
{/if}

or

{capture assign=contact_gender}{contact.gender}{/capture}
{assign var='contact_greeting' value='Dear'}
{if $contact_gender eq 'Female'}
  {assign var='contact_greeting' value='Chère'}
{/if}

{$contact_greeting} {$first_name|default:Friend},

Cheers

Pradeep

Answer 2

Thanks to Pradeep's help I found the way:

For my case, this is the code to use

{capture assign=gender}{contact.gender}{/capture}
{if $gender eq 'Homme'} Cher {contact.first_name}, 
{elseif $gender eq 'Femme'} Chère {contact.first_name}, 
{/if}

I just needed to insert it where needed in the source of the email. FuzionFields was of a good help to find the correct string for the field Gender. It was also important to write {contact.first_name} and not {first_name} like writen in the documentation.

To make Smarty work with CKeditor you'll also need to set this parameter using Pradeep's other answer: How to deal with ' or (') in CKeditor

I'm very happy to have this small but nice enhancement for our feminine members.