Modern Approvals Body Formatting

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Posted on by b_henning

I'm creating a business card request from that forward to manager for approval.

I'd like the modern approvals message the approver gets to look like this:

Quantity: something

Name: something

Cost Center: Something (and so on).

Instead it's formatting like this

Quantity: something Name: something Cost Center: Something (and so on).

The approval is ugly. I've trying using HTML </br> tags but they show up in the message like this

Quantity: something</br>Name: something</br>Cost Center: Something (and so on).

Which is even more confusing. Anyone found a good solution?

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v-micsh-msft on at

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Hi @b_henning,

I am afraid currently it is not available for the Send Approval Email action to edit the Email Body in HTML format, as there is no option available to choose whether the Email body would be in HTML or not.

I will try to make some tests on this, there should be some character which could be recognized as the line feed character in the body.

Besides, please consider submit this as an idea in the Microsoft Flow idea forum:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Regards,

Michael

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jacomahig 16 on at

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I think this is important to have as most user requirements would like to edit the body as HTML format

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jacomahig 16 on at

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Any updates with this idea request this would be very handy as this is very common situation

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Mine is working using HTML tags but I had to turn on the email option "Is Html?" to be YES for the it to recognize the tags. This setting is at the bottom of the email content section below the Body of the message.

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jacomahig 16 on at

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Hi deeod, I think you are referring to the old approval there is a new approval action called Modern approval
this still does NOT support HTML as of today this is a critical for our team and a very common requirement
I hope flow team would add this HTML option in the new modern approval it would be a total tumbs up ....

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Community Power Pla... on at

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Ah, ok, I was not aware that there was a new one.

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Try adding <a href="hyperlink">your text here</a> and the HTML renders fine in the email, leave the text blank if you don't want any hyperlink to be displayed

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Pvansickler 4 on at

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<BR> works for me on the E-mail Approval Block... I do notice that you have "\" in there on your <\BR>

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aspan 2 on at

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@Anonymous Could you please clarify, do you mean placing <a href="hyperlink">your text here</a> in the Details field of the Start an Approval card, as below?
I've tried with and without a working link, with and without text, and putting it in the body of the email I'm attempting to use in this Details field instead, but so far the garble of HTML tags persists.

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Hi Aspan,

Yes in the details only - I know this is not the response you are looking for but I believe something may have changed as the email works file for me with or without html tags

Thanks
Chet

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