Braze MCP Server - Prompts and Use Cases
Hey all, I was very excited to see the release of the Braze MCP server and set it up with Claude this morning. It's very impressive, so far I've gotten nice analytics reports for overall Canvas performance, but limited to 14 days at a time with the canvas data series analytics API, or to ask for the 'top performing Push campaigns for July 2025'. I wanted to hear some other prompts people were using to get reporting value quickly from Braze. I also was interested to pull in messaging templates (Email, IAM) and see how well it could add/edit liquid. Disclaimer: Of course don't give the MCP API key more than read access while we play around with the functionality as we don't want it to go and edit anything in Prod!Using a catalog to populate a push based on date
Hi. I created a catalog in Braze with 3 fields: id title preheader The id column is a date yyyy-mm-dd I then created a selection where id equals {{today}} I followed Braze support to use this as my push message: {% catalog_selection_items anchor today %} {{ items[0].preheader }} However, nothing is populating. Does anyone have a solution?Is it possible to store liquid and content blocks inside catalogs?
Hi all Recently we tried putting a section of liquid + text inside a catalog item but it only rendered as text. I then put it inside a content block and it seemed to render for the first item but if I had two items the second one didn't render. I'm not sure if I'm missing some tricks or it's not possible but I'm currently having issues getting it to render reliably each time. The longer end goal is to render a series of emails based on user paths but use catalogs as the single source of truth for content and avoid going in and out of a canvas. I know I can build the emails with HTML in the canvas and pull in the copy, that works good. Was just testing if I can pull in entire sections of code as well. Open to any advice, tips and tricks. Thanks 😊
Support: Localisation for Catalogs content?
Hi everyone, I am integrating the catalog feature and now defining the required fields for my first catalog. And I would like to know is the catalog fields support localisation? As the field ONLY allowed to be typed as String, or I need to create a new field for each language, like name_en, name_fr? https://www.braze.com/docs/user_guide/personalization_and_dynamic_content/catalogs/catalog
Braze Catalogs. No Required ID? Personalized Recommendations with MD5 Hashing
Hi there! I recently ran into a snag when launching a personalized recommendations email campaign using Braze Catalogs. Turns out, I was missing the required item IDs! This can be a real headache, but I found a workaround and wanted to share it with you. My guide shows how to use MD5 hashing to create unique identifiers from your item titles, even without those original IDs. {% assign title_to_match = {{event_properties.${items}[0].item_name }} {% assign key = {{title_to_match | md5}} %} full guide here - https://medium.com/@artembratchenko/leveraging-braze-catalogs-for-personalized-item-recommendations-a-guide-without-required-ids-e05ac227c111
