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Line Break in Html_to_text / Converting E-Mail to Planner Task

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Hi all...

I  am quite new to MS Automate and have a problem which I can't solve, yet. Perhaps someone can give me a hand on it. I also searched the web and this forum but did not find a solution for it... just hints for a direction to look at.

 

The circumstance is as follows: I need to create a task in MS Planner from an E-Mail. The mail has a certain format, arrives in Outlook, gets moved to a specific folder in Outlook, the flow is being triggered when a new mail arrives in the specific folder. I am using a template for it and it does work fine, except for the formating in the task description. Every line break ist being removed, so that the whole text is one flow. I test-run the flow and checked the input and output data. At the Input I get a couple of "\n" shown, some are either being removed or inserted by the "Html _to_text" conversion.

 

This is how the flow looks like:

 

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This is what I get at a test run, the output has no line break.

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The input has a couple of "\n" as you can see here at the content string.

 

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The output has removed the originals "\n" as you can see at the body string.

 

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Here is the whole converted body string which gets used as task description, you can see the inserted "\n".

 

"body": "(DM) 15510589 / (TID) DE_95020-39675193 ATM XXXXXXXXX (DB) GAA_61048\nFreiheitsstr. XXXXXXXXX Nordrhein-Westfalen XXXXX FIrmenname: XXXXXXXXXX\nDeutschland GmbH Geräte Hersteller: NCR Modelnummer: NCR Persona S71\nSeriennummer: XXXXXXXX Vorgang vom: 27-09-2020 18:01 Problem: Testmeldung, keine\nechte Störmeldung!!! Kommentare:"

 

Here is the result in MS Planner

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This is how it should look like

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I found some people working with a function called "replace" the replace certain characters but did not get it to work for me.

 

Can anyone give some advice? 

 

Thank you.

 

Markus

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  • Mira Ghaly Profile Picture
    11,415 Moderator on at

    @Markus_ 

    Can you please try the below expression on a compose data operation

    replace(uriComponent(body('Html_to_text')),'%20','\n')

     

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    v-litu-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Markus_,

     

    You could initialize a string variable named BreakLine, then input twice Enter button into the value(or once), then use replace() function repalce these "\n" to the variable BreakLine, for example:

    replace(outputs('Compose_2'),'\n',variables('BreakLine'))
    

    Screenshot 2020-09-28 143308.jpg

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ Lin Tu
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