SharePoint multiple lines fields into Approval markdown table

[naemea]

Hello,

I'm trying to create an approval table with markdown, but I can't get the desired result when I have multiple lines in my SharePoint fields.

Example of SharePoint fields:

PRODUCT	PRICE A	PRICE B	OFFER
A B C	1 2 3	4 5 6	D E F

I've tried with a Select to get the JSON schema and this kind of does something, but what I got looks like this:

Is there a way to loop through the array and get each item at line break to correctly create the rows?

Let me know if I can provide more details.

Thanks for your time.

[MarvinBangert]

Hey @naemea 

sorry, I don't really understand your question or what is not working. You have a SharePoint table (list?) and you want to send approvals using Power Automate for each row in the table (list)? 

Did you already tried to build it in Power Automate, so that you can maybe show what you already tried?

Every hint would be helpful, that we can help you!

Best regards
Marvin

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[naemea]

Hi,

I have a SharePoint list, with 4 multi-line text fields which are evenly compiled.

I'm sending approvals with PowerAutomate and I want to send a table in markdown with those 4 fields.

Right now, my approval looks like this:

I'd like it to be a table for better reviewing, like this:

PRODUCT	PRICE A	PRICE B	OFFER
A B C	1 2 3	4 5 6	D E F

I've tried to append the fields into a variable, but it works only when every field has 1 item, because I couldn't split the multiple lines of text into separate rows. That's how it looks:

This is what I tried to to do in PowerAutomate:

I think I need a further loop to split the columns into rows, but I've not managed to do so. 

I hope I've given you a better understanding of the problem. Again, thanks for you time and let me know if I can provide further details.

[v-xiaochen-msft]

Hi @naemea ,

The point is to use markdown in your approval detail.

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

I did a test for you.

This is my list.

This is my flow.

concat('|',items('Apply_to_each').Title,'|',items('Apply_to_each').Email,'|')

Best Regards,

Wearsky

[naemea]

Hi @v-xiaochen-msft,

Thanks for your answer. I've managed to obtain your same result when there is only one line for each field. My problem is that my items' fields are not single lines of text but multiple lines separated by line breaks ("\n" character). The table is related to one SharePoint item only which can contain multiple lines of text in 4 even fields.

IE:

ITEM ID	PRODUCT	PRICE A	PRICE B	OFFER
1	A B C	1 2 3	4 5 6	D E F

I don't know if I've managed to explain myself better than before. Please let me know if I was unclear again.

Thanks

[v-xiaochen-msft]

Hi @naemea ,

I understood your needs and reproduced your problem.

Unfortunately, the markdown table itself does not support line breaks.

I have seen some blogs introducing the use of "<br>" in markdown table.

But unfortunately, Html is not supported in the approval details.

So I think maybe you can only convert your multi-line text into single-line text.

Best Regards,

Wearsky

[naemea]

Hi @v-xiaochen-msft,

I'll try to check out those blogs as well, thanks for the heads up.

Unfortunately I can't convert those fields in single-line text. Do you think that a loop which breaks the array with a "split" function and then re-concatenate the 4 columns into rows is achievable?

[v-xiaochen-msft]

Hi @naemea ,

Yes, I think so. 

I will make a demo for you later.

Best Regards,

Wearsky

[stellarwheels]

If a demo was ever made for this, I would love to see it. I am also trying to create a table with multiple linebreaks per table cell. Thank you!