Announcements
Hi all,
I'm exploring options to post bold text messages in Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) using Power Automate flows. I've tried a few different formatting approaches, such as:
*hi*
**hi**
<b>hi</b>
<strong>hi</strong>
However, none of these seem to render the text as bold in the Viva Engage post. The formatting either shows up as plain text or is stripped out entirely.
Has anyone come across this requirement before or found a working method to post formatted (specifically bold) messages to Viva Engage using Power Automate?
Any suggestions or examples would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
As far as I am aware that specific Engage connector action doesn't support HTML formatting.
However, a workaround would be to use the Post Message method of the Engage/Yammer REST API.
That Post Message method supports HTML formatting for announcement message types:
"To send an announcement, set the following parameters, and use HTML to format the message body.
is_rich_text:true message_type:announcement title: your text here." Below is an example HTTP action configuration
{ "body": "<strong>Hi!</strong>", "is_rich_text": true, "message_type": "announcement", "title": "", "group_id": "@{variables('YammerDestinationGroup')}" }
Test result
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