Email body to Teams text/background color

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Posted on by zride91

Hello,

I am looking to push email bodies to Teams using a Flow. I have been able to do this successfully, however, I use dark mode in Teams and the emails that get pushed to Teams come with gray font that VERY difficult to read/see.

I tried changing the font color and background color in the Message attributes of the Post message in a chat or channel node, but it does not look to affect the inserted Body data. Is there a way to either make this work with dark mode in Teams or force the body background to be shown with certain color?

Thank you for any direction.

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zride91 20 on at

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As an update, I've tried utilizing Copilot to help, but the changes it makes do not affect the results.

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zride91 20 on at

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Also, I want to note that the email shows in Outlook in a readable manner in Dark mode, Outlook shows all the text white, where Teams keeps it dark gray.

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Ecto1Passenger 5 on at

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I am facing the exact same problem. Has anyone found a fix yet?

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zride91 20 on at

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I still have not found a solution to this yet, so I either struggle to make things out, or blind myself in classic light mode 🙂 Once this is figured out, I'd like to utilize pushing the e-mails to a Team, but until this is worked out, it's just a failed trial exercise for me...

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NR-22081515-0 2 on at

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I just ran into the same issue. The problem appears to be embedded html in the body from the email being carried over to teams. I was able to fix this with an HTML to text entry to clean the output of rogue html. From there you can format as you like.

In order to preserve newline formatting:

- Add a new variable initialized as pressing enter in the variable box.

- Use the newline variable to replace the newline characters in the body with <br> so teams can format it correctly.

- Pass the ouput through as your message body.

replace(outputs('Html_to_text')?['body'],variables('newline'),'<br>')

This is the thread that put me on the right path: https://community.powerplatform.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=dee9da78-d6cb-48b2-b731-771dadc93a5a

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AE-30101350-0 2 on at

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Thanks @NR-22081515-0 this was helpful if using unstructured data and plain text. However, if I get structured emails I found another option with is not 100% fine but at least the general text gets converted according to dark mode.

Tables will still be in black but at least the structure of the email will be available.

Select the body of the email.

Once it is included press on it and then select a font color, e.g. blue.
If you now run the flow the text is getting pushed in Teams dark mode in white (except the tables). But the whole structure stays.

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