Conditional formating in 'Send an email (V2)

[MantasV]

Hello, 

I'm sorry if the answer has been listed somewhere, I really did try to look for it and couldn't find anything.

I have created a flow for quality checks where when I get a response from a Microsoft form, the responses go to a table in excel, in excel I've set up a formula to calculate a total result of the responses and all that data is then sent to the person who the quality check was done for.\

What I need help with is, with conditional formatting for different types of responses, so first one would be the final result of it I want to be colored red if it's under 75, yellow if it's between 75 and 90 and green if it's above 90. I tried googling different codes to enter, but the result font seems to constantly turn out black regardless of what I do. 

And then kind of on the same page, I want to add conditions that if responses positive they would appear at one part of the e-mail and if responses were negative, they would appear at a different part of the e-mail. 

The e-mail is currently looking something like this:

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm a little concerned that trying to enter codes into the e-mail is potentially a wrong approach all together. 

[annetoal]

Here's some conditional HTML formatting:

First, create a variable to contain the result value. For illustration purposes, I have it in an Initialize variable action. I've named it MyNumber but you can name it whatever you want. Make the variable type Integer (unless there's a chance the value will ever have decimal points, in which case call it a Float. You will notice I have manually plugged in the value of 95 but this value should come from your code.

Close-up:

The next step is for purposes of illustration, to show you how to make a HTML string from the value. I am using an Initialize variable action to set value of a string called HTML.

Then, use this expression to generate the HTML you can insert into the Send an Email (v2) action.

if(less(variables('MyNumber'), 75),
    concat('<span style="color: red;">', string(variables('MyNumber')), '</span>'),
    if(and(greater(variables('MyNumber'), 75), lessOrEquals(variables('MyNumber'), 90)),
        concat('<span style="color: yellow;">', string(variables('MyNumber')), '</span>'),
        concat('<span style="color: green;">', string(variables('MyNumber')), '</span>')
    )
)

Now you can take the output of the HTML string variable and insert it into your HTML email:

In this example, it sent an email consisting of a green number 95.

Hope this helps,

Anne

[Anchov]

You can construct Power Automate expressions for color formatting using HTML. Here are some steps you can follow, though you'll need to modify them to suit your specific situation:

1. I created a new manual flow that accepts a number:

2. I create a compose Statement, that generates html according to your color formatting criteria:

The expression I used to generate the correct color based on the number is:

concat('<span style="color:', if(less(triggerBody()?['number'], 75), 'red', if(lessOrEquals(triggerBody()?['number'] , 90), 'yellow', 'green')), ';">', string(triggerBody()?['number']), '</span>')

3. I send and email with the results:

Email is generated showing the color formatted value:

The same concept can be applied for formatting your email for positive or negative. 

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[MantasV]

Thank you both for your replies, I tried doing both of the methods, but I imagine I'm doing something wrong as it still doesn't work. 

First the method with the 'Compose' function, I left the triggers and information as they were (maybe the trigger needs to be changed somehow? But I still need to get the information from the form, before the e-mail is composed) 

But the resulting e-mail I get is this:

concat('', string(triggerBody()?[100]), '')

For the other method with the variables, I've entered it as advised just the first variable I used 'Float' since as you mentioned if the result may have decimal points, I should use that. 

But in this case the flow wouldn't run and return results like this:

The variable 'MyNumber' of type 'Float' cannot be initialized or updated with value of type 'String'. The variable 'MyNumber' only supports values of types 'Float, Integer'.

I don't really understand this error as it seems to say it supports the type 'Float' but then that it can't be converted to string? 

Again thank you both for your help and any further assistance would be greatly appreciated. 

[Anchov]

Hi @MantasV ,

The issue seems to be related to the expressions not being entered as formulas in the dynamic formula editor. Currently, they are being interpreted as plain text. Expressions enable you to add conditional logic to your actions and need to be processed by the Power Automate engine.

If you are new to expressions, I recommend watching this tutorial: Power Automate Expressions Tutorial.

But a short how-to:

To do this, you need to enter them into the dynamic formula editor by:
1. Click within the compose action, then click on the "Fx" button:

2. Ensure you are in the "Expression" tab, and input your formula. Note that only expressions can be added here.

3. If you need to add dynamic values (e.g., variables, outputs from other actions, etc.), use the dynamic values button.

4. Click "Save" to insert the expression. It's crucial to note that the syntax must be precisely correct for the expression to save.

5. Verify that the expression was entered correctly and placed where you intended it within the Compose action . Expressions are denoted by the "Fx" box. The rest of the text in the Compose will be interpreted as static HTML (in this case).

Please Note: You could format the HTML directly in the email action (in the body). However, I recommend using a compose action (variables work too) because the email action tends to attempt to "fix" the HTML by adding unnecessary characters, potentially disrupting your carefully formatted HTML. Make sure your HTML is accurate in the compose statement.

[annetoal]

You need to turn the variable MyNumber into a string. Use this expression in place of where you have MyNumber in the email:

string(variables('MyNumber')