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Outlook emails converted to planner tasks

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Posted on by NataliaK

I have created a flow which creates a Planner task when a new Outlook task is created and then adds a description to it.

In Outlook, I create tasks from email messages (by dragging them to the task button), which then triggers the flow.

Tasks appear in the Planner as expected, but in the description, I get the HTML code of those email messages. I can't work out at which stage I should convert the format and how.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

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ChristianAbata 8,951 Most Valuable Professional on at

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hi @NataliaK it seems like you need this.

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/Using-a-flow-to-extract-email-body-details/td-p/149186

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Hi @NataliaK,

You could use the HTML to text action to convert the format before appending it into the task description:

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NataliaK 4 on at

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@ChristianAbata Thanks! It looks like extracting body details is not an issue, it's more of converting those to the correct format.

@v-litu-msft Thank you! I have added Convert HTML to Text, and the body text is more readable. It looks like the plain text is missing line breaks, though. I there a way to keep/add them?

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Hi @NataliaK,

The line break will be kept, for example:

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