Creating draft Gmail from event in Google Calendar

Whe I am trying to create a draft email in Gmail from an event starting in Google Calendar I am using the description in Google Calendar to provide the information I want in the body of the email. When the draft email is created though I have </p><p dir="ltr"> everytime there should be a new paragraph. I am trying to get the email to look the same as the description in google calendar. I have attached screen shots. Does anyone know how I can get the body of the email to look like what is in google calendar?

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@Barnetto this is happening because the Description from the GCal event is in HTML. To have it render properly in Gmail, you can do one of two things:

Set the Body type parameter in the Create Draft in Gmail action to HTML:

Or add a Formatter → Text → Remove HTML Tags step to convert the event description from GCal from HTML to plain text, and then pass the plain text into the Create Draft step:

Hope this helps!

Thank you so much DennisWF that has worked

Yay! 🎉 So pleased to see this got sorted, @Barnetto. Appreciate you following up here to share that DennisWF’s suggestion did the trick—thanks for helping out here @DennisWF! 🙌

Seems like you’re all set for now but do reach back out if you need help with anything else. In the meantime, I hope you both have a great weekend! 😎

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