Jira Automation - Sending HTML Email with Field Table

Krister Broman _Advania_

Hi Experts, 

We send out a weekly status email with some of our Portfolio Items. We send this email using automation and we format the wiki rendered fields as HTML using i.e. {{Description.html}}. This generally works well. 

Now the question, sometimes we have a table included in the field of one of the issues. Just a regular formatted table in the wikirendered field. However when sending an email with this the table will be fully removed. The text before and behind of the table will display. 

Has anyone found a way to display a table correctly?

 

Mark Chaimungkalanont

The HTML version of the field should contain the table's HTML... I did a test and it looked like:

<div class='table-wrap'> <table class='confluenceTable'><tbody> <tr> <th class='confluenceTh'><b>This is a table</b></th> <th class='confluenceTh'>&nbsp;</th> <th class='confluenceTh'>&nbsp;</th> </tr> <tr> <td class='confluenceTd'>New line</td> <td class='confluenceTd'>COlumn 2</td> <td class='confluenceTd'>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class='confluenceTd'>&nbsp;</td> <td class='confluenceTd'>&nbsp;</td> <td class='confluenceTd'>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div>

You should try outputting the table using the Log Action and check the HTML, you might need to add some additional CSS styles to format it nicely in an email