Flow Issues - Thank You In Advance!

[nide0006]

Hi All -

I am trying to trigger an email on a weekly basis via a SharePoint list. I have a similar email that works flawlessly but I'm having issues with this one. I think the root cause is that some items in the SharePoint list are multi-select. I want the outputs to still show up in the table though. This is what I am seeing:

You'll note the text comes out very funky. No idea how to fix. 

My Flow is:

the details are: 

replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(body('Create_HTML_Table'), '&lt;',  '<'),  '&gt;',  '>'),  '&amp;', '&'),  '&#39;',  '"'), 'quot;','"') 

Details are:

<style>
table {
border: 1px solid #1C6EA4;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
width: 120%;
text-align: left;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table td, table th {
border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;
padding: 3px 2px;
}
table tbody td {
font-size: 12px;
}
table thead {
background: #1C6EA4;
border-bottom: 2px solid #444444;
}
table thead th {
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
border-left: 2px solid #D0E4F5;
}
table thead th:first-child {
border-left: none;
}
</style>

Any idea how to fix this? I am not an expert but have watched multiple videos. I'd appreciate clear steps that a beginner can follow. Thank you!

[v-bofeng-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @nide0006 ,

I've made a test for your reference:

1\My SP List

2\My Flow

3\Result

Best Regards,

Bof

[grantjenkins]

This sort of scenario is perfect for XML and XPath to get what you want, and to avoid using loops making it much more efficient.

Below is the List I'm using for this example. Note that it has multi-select Choice (Countries) and Person (Members) columns.

See full flow below. I'll go into each of the actions.

Get items retrieves all the items from our list.

XML is a Compose that converts our JSON output from Get items to XML. Note that the expression also adds a root element to ensure it's valid XML. The expression used is below. Getting our data into XML means we can use XPath in the next step to collate values across rows.

xml(json(concat('{"root": { value:', outputs('Get_items')?['body/value'], '}}')))

Below is a sample of what the list data would look like in XML.

Create HTML table uses XPath expressions to build up our table.

The expression we use as the input (From) data is below. Effectively, it's getting the value property from our XML which is our array of items.

xpath(outputs('XML'), '//root/value')

The Title and Description values are Single line of text columns so we can use the following expressions to get these.

xpath(item(), 'string(//Title/text())')

xpath(item(), 'string(//Description/text())')

Status is a single select Choice column, so we also need to add /Value to get the actual value.

xpath(item(), 'string(//Status/Value/text())')

Countries is a multi select Choice column, so we first need to get the collection of Countries including the /Value, then join them with ', '.

join(xpath(item(), '//Countries/Value/text()'), ', ')

Members is a multi select Person column, so we first need to get the collection of Members including /DisplayName to get the actual name of the person, then join them with ', '

join(xpath(item(), '//Members/DisplayName/text()'), ', ')

This gives us our HTML table with all our data.

CSS is a Compose which is the same as yours, to style the HTML table.

And finally, adding the Table including CSS to our email.

And the output of the email.