# `bird email templates versions languages set`

## Usage

```bash
bird email templates versions languages set <template-id> <version-id> <language> [flags]
```

## Description

Save one language of a draft

Save one language's full content on a template's draft, creating the language if the draft does not carry it yet.

Build the request from flags, a JSON EmailTemplateLanguageUpsert body via --body-file ("-" reads
stdin), or both — a flag overrides the matching body field. Run --example to
print a ready-to-edit body, or --dry-run to print the resolved request without
sending it.

## Procedure

Step 2 of 3 of "Author a template and make it sendable". Previous: bird email templates create. Next: bird email templates versions submit.

## Examples

```bash
# print the body shape (no credentials needed)
bird email templates versions languages set --example

# the body it prints:
```

```json
{
  "html": "<h1>Hi {{ bird.contact.first_name }}</h1>",
  "subject": "Welcome to Acme, {{ bird.contact.first_name }}!"
}
```

## Options

#### Request

| Name                | Description                                                  |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `--body-file`       | Read the JSON request body from this file; "-" reads stdin   |
| `--example`         | Print a complete example request body, then exit             |
| `--dry-run`         | Print the resolved request without sending it, then exit     |
| `--idempotency-key` | Deduplication key; a retry with the same key won't act twice |

#### Options

| Name                | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--subject`         | The email subject line for this language.                                                                                                                                                                               |
| `--html`            | The HTML body for this language.                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| `--text`            | The plain-text body for this language. Omit it and a plain-text alternative is derived from the HTML when you publish.                                                                                                  |
| `--revision <n>`    | The revision you last read for this language, to detect a concurrent edit. The save is rejected with a conflict if the language moved on since. Omit it to save unconditionally. Creating a language does not need one. |
| `--response-schema` | Print the fields this command returns, then exit                                                                                                                                                                        |

## Related

| Name                                                                                                              | Description                      |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| [`bird email templates versions languages delete`](/docs/cli/reference/email-templates-versions-languages-delete) | Remove one language from a draft |
| [`bird email templates versions languages get`](/docs/cli/reference/email-templates-versions-languages-get)       | Get one language of a version    |
| [`bird email templates versions languages list`](/docs/cli/reference/email-templates-versions-languages-list)     | List a version's languages       |
| [`bird email templates versions languages update`](/docs/cli/reference/email-templates-versions-languages-update) | Edit one language of a draft     |