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Using Power Automate to create tasks in Planner from a Form

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Hello!

There's a project I've been working on for my office that I could use some help with. Essentially, what I've set up for us is whenever a new research request form is filled out in Microsoft Forms, the relevant people are notified via email, and a task is created in the team's Planner. That works swimmingly, but there's one issue; ideally, I would like for the task that's created to display important response data from the form within the Planner task itself. I have managed to do so, but unfortunately, it comes out very poorly formatted. Here are some screenshots:

My flow:

How the task is formatted in Planner:

I have tried using Enter to use new lines in Power Automate so that it maybe looked nicer, but it still just comes out as one big continuous blob of a sentence. Would it be possible to format the text in the Planner tasks so that it's more readable?

Thanks!

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Heartholme 1,278 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @alexneedleman ,

Planner is usually quite restrictive with the title output, but please try this:

Add a compose with a line break and put it between the dynamic content, it usually works wonders in a lot of other cases, but in teams it shows the output like this:
Even though the flow output is like this:
But I guess it's worth a try since you are using a standalone app?

Let me know how it goes 😄

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Thank you for the response! I tried adding that line break, and even adding a dash in each line, to no avail. The outputs still come out like this:
It's a shame but I appreciate the insight nonetheless!

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