Butler report email markdown table support

Question

Hi All,

We have a number of boards that I would like to generate reports from. These need to be in table format for ease of readability.

I can generate the correct markdown to format the report as a table but they render incorrectly due to the removal or addition of extra spaces in the output email.

here are a couple of examples with test data;

Input to the send an email notification message box:

| Syntax | Description | Test Text |
| :--- | :----: | ---: |
| Header | Title | Text |

Output in the email::

| Syntax | Description | Test Text | | :--- | :----: | ---: | | Header | Title | Text |

white space removed!

AND

Input to the send an email notification message box:

| Syntax | Description | Test Text |

| :--- | :----: | ---: |

| Header | Title | Text |

Output in the email:

| Syntax | Description | Test Text |

| :--- | :----: | ---: |

| Header | Title | Text |

Extra line breaks added!

I have tried lots of other variations too and nothing seems to work. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

Tosh

Iain Dooley · Answer

@Tosh Brown @Michel Valstar if you want them in a table format you might be better exporting either as CSV (if you have business class and the default export format suits you), or using a power up like Board Export from Adaptavist, or Blue Cat reports.

Alternatively, you can write your own reports using the API. There's a good baseline for this using Google Apps Script published here:

http://www.littlebluemonkey.com/blog/automated-trello-reporting-using-google-spreadsheets

Or you could use Trellinator, here's a basic example:

https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/7e28a43ec46a2050fd497e52f44ed57e

You can read more about Trellinator here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Introducing-Trellinator-Automate-Trello-with-Google-Apps-Script/ba-p/925271

Michel Valstar · Answer

I had a similar problem while creating a report that made an unordered (bullet point) list of cards. For some reason, after the first card to be reported on in the list, every next card was double-indented in the bullet list, indicating two white space characters. No matter what I try, I can't seem to get rid of this mystery white space that is added.