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Unable to insert clickable URL in Teams post from Flow Bot

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Posted on by EHans

If I use the old "Post to Teams Channel" action, I can wrap a url in the <a href="http://blahblah">Click here</a> html code, but I cannot @ a user using the new <at>username@emailaddress.com</at>

So I am using the posting as a flow bot. It does the @ correctly, but the HTML is ignored and it just posts the URL as an unclickable length of text. Even if I am using dynamic data from a Power BI connector, which provides a Tile URL, even that gets expanded into 3-4 lines of text.

Any ideas?

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Brad_Groux 4,556 on at

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Have you checked the Formatting text content in the Microsof Teams API documentation? Specifically the Examples of text formatting, which mentions hyperlink formatting:
[Bing](https://www.bing.com/)
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EdHansberry 386 on at

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Nope. Didn't work. Posted the entire thing as plain text.

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I'm having the exact same issue!

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EdHansberry 386 on at

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I added it as an idea here with the tag bug. This seems to be a bug given it converts dynamic content urls added to a flow to plain text. Please vote for it. If there is another place to post about bugs, please let me know.

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RobElliott 10,323 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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I assume Microsoft have fixed it because adding the link with the <a href=""....etc in the flow now creates a clickable link in the Teams channel for me.
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EdHansberry 386 on at

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Thanks @RobElliott . I'll go back to some of my flows and test this out.

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minniep 41 on at

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Thnk you @Brad_Groux
This worked for me.
However we will need to put it in the Text Box of the JSON like this:

{
"type": "TextBlock",
"spacing": "None",
"text": "[text](link)"
},

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Pasark 20 on at

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Thanks @RobElliott
I was able to create the link as illustrated and now have a direct link to a new Planner task. I used concat to build the url to the Planner task.

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Community Power Pla... on at

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For me markdown works fine.

[Open Document](https://bing.com)

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Community Power Pla... on at

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Hi Ed! I noticed your screenshot had a space between [The Text](The Link). There cannot be a space between the brackets and the parenthesis.

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