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Real-time Marketing - Add lists to an email in a journey

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Hi everyone, my question is regarding how to dynamically add lists of records into an email in a real-time journey.

Megan Walker has a terrific explanation of how to add lists: https://meganvwalker.com/filter-lists-to-display-in-d365-marketing-emails/

However, in our scenario the situation is bit more complicated, and the list isn't from the Contact reference, we need a reference to the Event Registration. 

We trigger a real-time journey on Event Registrations, and we need to fetch all the Event passes that are registered for the event registration and send them as a list in a confirmation email. 

The problem is that only the standard triggers seem to be able to use more complex datatypes like entity reference, custom trigger does not have this:

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Our custom trigger can only use basic data types like text, boolean, Date/Time. This means that I can't create a list as shown by Megan Walker in my custom trigger/real time journey.

So my question is how would you solve this problem:
Should I trigger the Standard Trigger within the real-time journey, meaning the custom trigger starts the journey, but somewhere in the journey we trigger the Standard trigger just to be able to get the entity references?

Or should I dynamically create a html list in the custom trigger in Power Automate?

Appreciate any help.

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    Sayen Zhang Profile Picture
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    Hi partner,

    I'm afraid it is not available for now to start the custom trigger and trigger the standard trigger to get the entity reference.

    When we create a journey and then select the trigger, we can only add actions or other elements after the trigger.

    pastedimage1681721878415v1.png

    If you want to create a html list in the custom trigger in power automate, you can refer to this link: Real-time Marketing, RSS Feeds & Subscription Centres (meganvwalker.com)

    Hope this link will help you!

    Best Regards,

    Sayen Zhang

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