Flow approval apps alignment issye

Kannan Ahammed 21

Hi,

Recently we have added approvals (flow) apps to our teams so the users can go to teams and select the pending approvals and approve them.

The data is stored in the SharePoint list, upon submission an approval action starts and approvers can approve them either from their outlook email or teams by selection approvals.

Its working as expected but when in teams the alignment is all messed up. ie no line breaks or or formatting etc. But outlooks it is showing as expected.

Any advise is greatly appreciated

Nikitha-MSFT 541 Reputation points

2021-01-19T06:11:36.337+00:00

You need to add the text formatting to your message. Could you please check this docs?
Kannan Ahammed 21 Reputation points

2021-01-19T06:19:17.743+00:00

Thanks Nikita,

I have already did and are displaying fine in the our outlook. the below shows fine in the outlook but not on the teams. The same approval will show up in approver's outlooks, Teams and flow.microsoft.com ->approvals. outlook and flow.microsoft.com displays it fine but not the teams.

Dear HR Team, You are requested to review and respond to the new Business Card Request: Information as supplied by the requestor Employee Name: Kannan Ahammed Location:
Kannan Ahammed 21 Reputation points

2021-01-19T06:28:55.667+00:00

Another test done with the syntax as below based on the link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/approvals-markdown-support

output on Teams

Lists Organize related items with lists. You can add ordered lists with numbers, or unordered lists with just bullets. 0. First item. 0. Second item. 0. Third item.

Output on Outlook
Nikitha-MSFT 541 Reputation points

2021-01-20T05:07:38.83+00:00

Currently Teams Allow only Text formatting as documented here.

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Li Zhang_MSFT 1,566 Reputation points

2021-01-19T10:11:16.213+00:00

Hi @Kannan Ahammed ,

Currently, per my test, some specific markdown in Start and wait for an approval action details doesn’t work well for Approvals in Teams.

“\r” is not the markdown in Power Automate approval requests, so it will not be available.

Output result in Outlook client:

Output result in Teams client:

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Kannan Ahammed 21 Reputation points

2021-01-19T10:15:00.157+00:00

Thanks @Li Zhang_MSFT ,

So Can we confirm that the formatting (such as newline, bold etc.) is not yet available on teams yet?
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Li Zhang_MSFT 1,566 Reputation points

2021-01-21T10:25:25.907+00:00

Hi @Kannan Ahammed ,

Markdown supported in Start and wait for an approval action is not exactly the same as those supported in Teams. I tested almost all markdown supported in that Approval action, and they cannot be displayed correctly in Approvals app of Teams.

Li Zhang_MSFT 1,566 Reputation points

2021-01-26T05:02:18.377+00:00

Hi @Kannan Ahammed ,

Is there any progress on this thread?

If you need further assistance, please feel free to reply.

Li Zhang_MSFT 1,566 Reputation points

2021-01-28T02:18:12.477+00:00

Hi @Kannan Ahammed ,

If my answer helps you, please click "Accept Answer" so that users who have the same question can refer to it.

Thank you for your support and understanding.

Kannan Ahammed 21 Reputation points

2021-01-28T04:59:20.473+00:00

I have already did

Li Zhang_MSFT 1,566 Reputation points

2021-01-28T05:00:24.107+00:00

Hi @Kannan Ahammed ,

Thank you! :)
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Flow approval apps alignment issye

Lists Organize related items with lists. You can add ordered lists with numbers, or unordered lists with just bullets. 0. First item. 0. Second item. 0. Third item.

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