How to populate text from Alert descriptions to Microsoft Teams with formatting

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This article will provide a simple guide for how to format the Opsgenie alert content when it is passed to the Microsoft Teams integration side. This article will cover three formatting examples:

1. Parsing the URL as a hyperlink from Opsgenie Alerts to the Microsoft Teams channel

2. Jumping to the next line

3. Parsing text in bold

For additional MS Teams formatting by Markdown, please refer to this official doc.

Parsing the URL as a hyperlink from Opsgenie Alerts to the Microsoft Teams channel

At this time, the Microsoft Teams channel does not provide support for URL anchors, therefore making Markdown the only solution in this case. That being said, if you would like to pass a URL in the Alert’s description to be a clickable hyperlink in Microsoft Teams, you will need to use the following format:

[Name](URL.com)

Here is an example showing this formatting with screenshots:

Jumping to the next line

In order to start a new line of text from an Opsgenie Alert, you will need to format the text using the backslash \ character.

Here is an example showing this formatting with screenshots:

Passing text in bold

In order to format your text to use bold, you will need to use the following formatting:

**text**

Here is an example showing this formatting with screenshots:

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