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Format message text in MS Teams?


We’re a Slack shop, but I’m looking to move us over to MS Teams. I have a LOT of zapier integrations pushing data in to different slack channels and am attempting to replicate that into Teams.

One thing I cannot seem to get to work as I would like is the formatting of the message text that gets sent to Teams via zapier. For example, in slack, the message shows up as:

Data #1: data entry

Data #2: data entry

Data #3: data entry

 

But this same data going into Teams shows up as:

Data #1: data entry Data #2: data entry Data #3: data entry

 

Very difficult to read and decipher. No boldfacing, no new lines, etc. It appears that Teams strips out the formatting and layout that zapier has been set to push. Is this by default? If not, how do I get my formatting into Teams?]

 

Thanks in advance!

Best answer by andywingraveBest answer by andywingrave

Hello! you can add a little step here called Split text.

Something like this should do it:

 

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  • July 27, 2020

Hello! you can add a little step here called Split text.

Something like this should do it:

 


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  • July 28, 2020

That did not do any thing other than add ‘#’ between each of my data points.

This is fake data, but this is the actual output after using the formatter:

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Run Number: 43-65-12345# Priority: Priority 3# ETA Given:7/27/2020-12:04# Scene: Janus General ER# Zone: Station 1# Age: 354 y/o Female# Destination: Regional Trauma Center# Chief Complaint: I don’t feel well# Notes: Other notes here

 

Does anyone know...does MS Teams strip out formatting from Zapier? Because Slack gets the output I expect.


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  • July 28, 2020

I’m a complete newbie but I just did this with standard HTML formatting e.g. your normal b and /b for bold and br for line breaks etc.


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  • July 28, 2020

@jjx - ugh..that’s a LOT of work….for something that should just work automatically...I’ve already done the boldface/line breaks/returns inside of the slack messaging w/o having to resort to html formatting. At least zapier+slack are smart enough to understand it & push out what I’ve already set.