I thought I’d share a bug I came across a while back relating to Power Automate’s Flow.
Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of doing a lot of work with Flow to automate web form submissions into databases, generate e-mails, … Lots of fun stuff.
One thing most people recommend is to activate the Experimental Features (under settings) to gain access to up and coming features that have not yet been released, sort of like a preview I guess. So I did.
Well, some of my work required using advanced HTML coding which simply couldn’t be done in the GUI interface and so all my work was being done in raw HTML for certain aspects, mainly creating e-mail body content. I confirmed everything was fine and saved my work and to my surprise all my table tags, etc. were gone and replaced with plain paragraph tags! All that work, gone.
So, I tried again as I thought it had to be something I was doing wrong. Sadly. I had the same results. And again. (Yes, I’m a sucker for punishment – I just couldn’t believe it was Flow)
Long story short, I managed, after several hours of trial and error, testing this and that, to figure out that the Experimental Features was to blame. Deactivating it enabled the HTML tags to be saved correctly.
I should note that I did report this to Microsoft several months ago, so hopefully it will get resolved at some point in time.
I have also learnt, the hard way, before saving anything in Flow, always copy/paste content into notepad for when things go awry.
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