unordered lists (bullet points) in table cells not properly formated (neither rovo, nor rovo studio)

[Georg Fankhauser]

Hi guys,

did anybody of you have already manage to format unordered lists with rovo or rovo studio agents, so that they are recognized by confluence properly without further post-processing.

Let's take a very easy example - in ROVO chat in sidebar with a page opened (just view, not edit) I want to create a summary of the most important aspects of the confluence page in tabular format, with the summary as text and the most important details as bullet points.

The prompt would look somewhat like that:

please create a summary of the most important content points on the page in tabular format as follows:
- columns ‘overview’ and ‘details’
- in column ‘overview’ place a summary of the content point
- in column ‘details’ place the most important detailed aspects for the summary point formatted as unordered list

The result SHOULD look like that:

summary	summary
this is a summary point	detailed item 1 detailed item 2 detailed item 3
this is another summary point	detailed item 5 detailed item 6

But no matter what I try, it does not get the unordered list / bullet point formatted properly.

It looks either like the following (just the first detail item recognized, the rest not)

summary	details
this is a summary point	detailed item 1 - detailed item 2 - detailed item 3
this is another summary point	...

or just the characters, no actual list detection and formating then when taken to confluence (no matter if - or * is used as separator)

summary	details
this is a summary point	* detailed item 1 * detailed item 2 * detailed item 3

I think, there must be a solution for that, to prompt a propper formatting?

I can correct that afterwards, but only with inline editing - so page in edit mode, text and table selected and then prompt something like: ```Fix the unordered list in the table - it is not properly recognized and formatted``` - but I want to be able to use similar formatting in agents which are placed in automations.

It would be a pitty, if I could not get that to work ;)

The reason in general might be, that there is no clean markdown-syntax for that scenario, so there would have to be something like a combination of markdown and html (with the <br>, but I don't get that to work in rovo and rovo studio with special prompting neither.

| overview | details |
|----------|---------|
| Summary point | * First detail<br>* Second detail<br>* Third detail |

[Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_]

Hi @Georg Fankhauser 

I can replicate the issue. With

• in column ‘details’ place the most important detailed aspects for the summary point as list. Make sure to add a line break after each point

I did get a correctly formatted list in the details column :)

[Georg Fankhauser]

@Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_ thanks for your input
did you try in rovo studio with an agent or in rovo chat?

I tried with the extended prompt and still get a non properly formatted output.
```
please create a summary of the most important content points on the page in tabular format as follows:
- columns ‘overview’ and ‘details’
- in column ‘overview’ place a summary of the content point
- in column ‘details’ place the most important detailed aspects for the summary point as list. Make sure to add a line break after each point
```

[Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_]

I tried chat...

I have tried lots of other prompts and even asked Rovo to tweak the prompt but that only resulted in markdown tables which don't really work either.

I think it's a little odd that Rovo seems to have an issue with lists in tables and it might be something that the product team around @Jensen Fleming should have a look at :)