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How do I incorporate HTML into the Details of Start and Wait for an Approval. I am only trying to use an unordered list.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<ul>
 <li> Approving this request acknowledges that current Island inventory can support additional demand based on @{triggerBody()?['Customer']} projected usage for the next 4 weeks.</li>
 <li> Approving this request acknowledges that current State inventory can support additional demand based on @{triggerBody()?['Customer']}projected uage for the next 8 weeks.</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

Please note that I am using dynamic content for Customer. Copying and pasting made it look different.

This approach for HTML does not work.

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RobElliott 10,323 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@rmanthey HTML can't used in the start and wait for an approval, only markdown is supported:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/approvals-markdown-support

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rmanthey 67 on at

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@RobElliott Thank you

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rmanthey 67 on at

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@RobElliott ~~My first bullet showed up properly formatted but the others did not.~~

I got it to work. I have spaces in front of the "-" so it would be indented, not important, so I took them out and it is formatted.

Thanks again

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nejhade 80 on at

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Hello @RobElliott

I have a situation where In start and wait for the approval I want to create a link to create auto generated mail with auto populated sent to, cc, and email body.
This is achievable by using normal: Sent an email from shared mailbox(v2)
but In above situation I am not able to catch Approver response whether he approved or rejected in backend tables.
Hence I want to use Start and wait for the approval. How can I create below link in start and wait for approval as I have variables too define mail content and table fields to define cc and mail to?

I am new to Power automate. It would be very helpful if any idea you suggest. Thanks in advance.

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RobElliott 10,323 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@nejhade after your start and wait for approival action add a condition of If Outcome is equal to Approve then do x otherwise do y. You will be able to select the outcome from the dynamic content, who the approver was, the date etc.

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nejhade 80 on at

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Thanks for the suggestions @RobElliott
As that approach will make me sent another mail to approver to sent an autogenerated mail.
I Don't want to sent 2 mails to approvers one for approving (that will update row at backend) and another for sending autogenerated mail to requestor.

I want both the activities to be done via start and wait approval action only.
Hence I am finding a way to add a link to 'start and wait for an approval' activity to generate an autogenerated mail.

Thanks any suggestion would be helpful.

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BandaruNikhita 4 on at

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How can I add logo in start and wait for an approval action in power automate?

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Emad_Gerges 30 on at

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I did a workaround by defining a string variable with header like that in the initialize value
| Description | Quantity | Sender Name |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|

Then for each row I appended the following string to the string variable
| Column1 value | Column 2 Value | Column 3 Value |
All values can be replaced with dynamic values from different sources
Make sure that you click enter after each line as red arrows show

At the end I added the string to the approval details

When I ran the flow the output would be like that
Also the approval came with the right table format.

Regards,
Emad

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