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docs: Add use case for substitutions #1363

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions docs/use-cases/README.md
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* [Send a Single Email to Multiple Recipients](single-email-multiple-recipients.md)
* [Send Multiple Emails to Multiple Recipients](multiple-emails-multiple-recipients.md)
* [Send Multiple Emails with Personalizations](multiple-emails-personalizations.md)
* [Send Multiple Emails with Personalizations and Substitutions](multiple-emails-personalizations-with-substitutions.md)
* [CC, BCC and Reply To](cc-bcc-reply-to.md)
* [Flexible Email Address Fields](flexible-address-fields.md)
* [Handling Success/Failure/Errors](success-failure-errors.md)
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# Send Multiple Emails with Personalizations and Substitutions

Personalizations are an array of objects, each representing a separate email, that allow you to customize the metadata of each email sent within a request. With substitutions you can also have the email template dynamically be updated through [substitution tags](https://docs.sendgrid.com/for-developers/sending-email/substitution-tags).

The below example shows how multiple emails, each with varying metadata and substitutions, are sent with personalizations.

```js
const sgMail = require('@sendgrid/mail');

sgMail.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);

const msg = {
from: '[email protected]',
subject: 'Ahoy!',
text: 'Ahoy {{name}}!',
html: '<p>Ahoy {{name}}!</p>',
personalizations: [
{
to: '[email protected]',
substitutions: {
name: 'Jon'
}
},
{
to: '[email protected]',
substitutions: {
name: 'Jane'
}
},
{
to: '[email protected]',
substitutions: {
name: 'Jack'
}
}
],
};

sgMail.send(msg);
```

The default `substitutionWrappers` are `{{` and `}}` in the node.js library, but you can change it using the `substitutionWrappers` property.

You can also use the SendGrid helper classes to achieve the same outcome:

```js
const sgMail = require('@sendgrid/mail');
const sgHelpers = require('@sendgrid/helpers');
const Mail = sgHelpers.classes.Mail;
const Personalization = sgHelpers.classes.Personalization;

sgMail.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
const mail = new Mail();
mail.setFrom('[email protected]');
mail.setSubject('Ahoy');
mail.addTextContent('Ahoy {{name}}!');
mail.addHtmlContent('<p>Ahoy {{name}}!</p>');

const personalization1 = new Personalization();
personalization1.setTo('[email protected]');
personalization1.addSubstitution('name', 'Jon');
mail.addPersonalization(personalization1);

const personalization2 = new Personalization();
personalization1.setTo('[email protected]');
personalization1.addSubstitution('name', 'Jane');
mail.addPersonalization(personalization2);

const personalization3 = new Personalization();
personalization1.setTo('[email protected]');
personalization1.addSubstitution('name', 'Jack');
mail.addPersonalization(personalization3);

sgMail.send(mail);
```

Refer to [the SendGrid documentation](https://docs.sendgrid.com/for-developers/sending-email/personalizations) for more details about personalizations.