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I am new to power automate and trying to automate Devops Bug creation and I have created a simple flow which should start in Microsoft Teams. I created an Adaptive Card for user to enter information which I shown below.

I pass the values but I have problem in some areas

Bug Title should have a prefix like "Team 1 -" and then entered Title should be added to prefix. Prefix is always fix value
Description should have specific format and entered values should be added each one

However I am not able to pass Prefix for Title neither the required formatting(bold text, spaces,...)
I have tried to add a compose and pass output but this didn't work either.

Any idea how can I achieve this?

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Hi @CU15041125-0,

The answer are in nested within the data property of the response. And you can use HTML instead of markdown.

Below is an example

This would be the expression for a textinput control with id BugTitle

body('Post_adaptive_card_and_wait_for_a_response')['data']['BugTitle']

The HTML for the Bug could be

Business Case: @{body('Post_adaptive_card_and_wait_for_a_response')['data']['BusinessCase']} Expected Results: 

Happy to help out 😁

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@Expiscornovus Thank you for your reply!

I am not sure If I understood, I am really new to this thema.

I have tried the steps you mentioned but could not get results :/

My adaptive card is currently "manual", uses "operationId": "ForASelectedMessageV2" , which I start manually in Teams Workflow Chat.

my "Create a work item" looks like this:

{
  "type": "OpenApiConnection",
  "inputs": {
    "parameters": {
      "account": "XXX",
      "project": "XXX",
      "type": "Bug",
      "workItem/title": "AP Test - @{outputs('ComposeTitle')}",
      "workItem/description": "<p class=\"editor-paragraph\">&lt;b&gt;Business Case:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;@{triggerOutputs()?['body/cardOutputs/businessCase']}&lt;br /&gt;</p><p class=\"editor-paragraph\">&lt;br /&gt;</p><p class=\"editor-paragraph\">&lt;b&gt;Expected Results:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;@{triggerOutputs()?['body/cardOutputs/businessCase']}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</p>",
      "workItem/priority": "@outputs('ComposePrio')",
      "workItem/area": "XXX\\Sandbox",
      "workItem/dynamicFields/System.AssignedTo": "@triggerOutputs()?['body/teamsFlowRunContext/messagePayload/from/user/displayName']",
      "workItem/dynamicFields/Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps": "<b>Business Case:</b><br />@{triggerOutputs()?['body/cardOutputs/businessCase']}}<br />\n<br /> \n<b>Expected Results:</b><br />@{triggerOutputs()?['body/cardOutputs/expectedResults']}<br /><br />",
      "workItem/dynamicFields/System.State": "New",
      "workItem/dynamicFields/System.Tags": "XXX Test"
    },
    "host": {
      "apiId": "/providers/Microsoft.PowerApps/apis/shared_visualstudioteamservices",
      "connection": "shared_visualstudioteamservices",
      "operationId": "CreateWorkItem"
    }
  },
  "runAfter": {
    "ComposePrio": [
      "Succeeded"
    ]
  },
  "metadata": {
    "operationMetadataId": "XXXXXXXXXXX"
  }
}

I get this in Devops, No formatting whatsoever :(

Title: rtzzr

Repro Steps:
Business Case: xxx Expected Results:xxxx

Where do I go wrong you think?

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Hi @CU15041125-0,

Apologies, I forgot to mention one thing for the description field, you need to switch that to code view first 😅

Additionally, try some other HTML tags as well, for example the H3 header one, that one should also work.

Below was my test result for the Repro Steps field

Happy to help out 😁

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Wow yes, this did the trick! Thanks a million! @Expiscornovus

I can now see the formating as I wanted!

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