Struggling with payload in notifications

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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I have the following end of a short flow that successfully sends a notification to my iPhone with the title, “Freeze Warning” but no message content:

[{"id":"40a2b28786870116","type":"template","z":"96c1068f.cd44d8","name":"Set Message","field":"payload","fieldType":"msg","format":"handlebars","syntax":"mustache","template":"Freezing temperatures are expected {{payload}}.","output":"str","x":870,"y":1240,"wires":[["62c01c920ce018de","442d28829f9a2451"]]},{"id":"62c01c920ce018de","type":"api-call-service","z":"96c1068f.cd44d8","name":"Notify iPhone","server":"296c0678.b5f9ca","version":5,"debugenabled":false,"domain":"notify","service":"mobile_app_iphone","areaId":[],"deviceId":[],"entityId":[],"data":"{\t   \"title\": \"Freeze Warning\",\t   \"message\": \"{{payload}} \"\t}","dataType":"jsonata","mergeContext":"","mustacheAltTags":false,"outputProperties":[],"queue":"none","x":1140,"y":1240,"wires":[[]]},{"id":"296c0678.b5f9ca","type":"server","name":"Home Assistant","version":4,"addon":true,"rejectUnauthorizedCerts":true,"ha_boolean":"y|yes|true|on|home|open","connectionDelay":true,"cacheJson":true,"heartbeat":false,"heartbeatInterval":30,"areaSelector":"friendlyName","deviceSelector":"friendlyName","entitySelector":"friendlyName","statusSeparator":"at: ","statusYear":"hidden","statusMonth":"short","statusDay":"numeric","statusHourCycle":"h23","statusTimeFormat":"h:m"}]

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Here’s the debug result:

_msgid: "d470aa4667c77af2"
payload: "Freezing temperatures are expected Wednesday."
topic: ""
_srcid: "22da97bb4d1ba7a5"
_ts: 1665506249554

I’d expect the message to be displayed as the payload, “Freezing temperatures are expected Wednesday.” Where am I going wrong? It has to be in the syntax of my notification, but I don’t know how to correct it:

{
   "title": "Freeze Warning",
   "message": "{{payload}}"
}
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Your template node is setting the payload to a string. To get it to be the JSON above, you need to set it to that, and then set the output of the template node to “Parsed JSON”. I assume the payload coming into the template node is then the string “Freezing temperatures are expected Wednesday.”.

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Thanks for the response - actually, the payload coming out of the template node is the string “Freezing temperatures are expected Wednesday.” That’s what shown in the debug node (repasted here):

_msgid: "d470aa4667c77af2"
payload: "Freezing temperatures are expected Wednesday."
topic: ""
_srcid: "22da97bb4d1ba7a5"
_ts: 1665506249554

…so, the only step I’m missing is displaying the payload in the Call Service node. That node is configured:

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…with the text in the Data field pasted here:

{   "title": "Freeze Warning",
    "message": "{{payload}}"
}

The iPhone notification works… but the payload is not displayed. Only the title is displayed.

I should note that I have other notifications where I want to insert the contents of the payload as a string, and I’ve never been able to do that either… e.g., “The temperature outside is {{payload]].”

Help?

EDIT: I found the solution, and as usual, it was something simple… I changed the “Data” field setting from Expression to JSON. Fixed.