u/StrongGarage850

In the construction industry- I have a letter building tool that compiles a bunch of stock documents, statements, custom text field, and then email to the customer and CC people on our team.

One of the final additions is "attachments" that are really just the title of the thing, and the URL. Basically at the end of the letter it can say "Documents Referenced:" and then it lists the bullet points etc... The word connector is pretty useless with this stuff so I actually have it just listing the text itself (not the URL) to not make the Word and PDF messy. But then when i email to the customer, I'm using HTML to possibly have more capabilities through the outlook connector.

Ideally I have the following output:

Documents referenced:
- 4-5 Wall Flashing Detail- Here

Any idea's on if this is possible? Current Flow:

• Powerapps exports Json
• Powerautomate takes Json and creates word document through fillable template
• Create file in onedrive and then convert to pdf
• Email pdf to customer with text in the outlook body

It would be nice to do it in the document itself but i just don't think that's possible using simple text context controls.

I have a flow that basically helps create/write letters from power apps as a submission tool roughly as follows:

1. Powerapps selections (name, email, checkboxes, dropdowns) exported as Json payload
2. Powerautomate pulls those selections through, populates a word document via contentControls, and saves to an appropriate folder.
3. Saves as pdf, emails to people...

Pretty simple overall and what I have right now is 99% functional but am just running into a few minor formatting things to see if anyone has any thoughts?

The body of the document joins several selections together something to the effect of:

"<Intro here that user typed from powerapps>, <paste Paragraph A if selected><Checkboxes selected>"

Each of those inputs into the word document is being entered without an indent, and if it does have an indent, when it saves to pdf the indent dissapears. At this point i feel like I've tried most things and it may just not be possible with the process or tools I'm using. Things that haven't worked:

• 5 spaces at the beginning of things- will work sometimes in word, not in pdf.
• tab indent at the beginning of things. Will work in word, not in pdf, and not if multiple checkboxes are selected (it only does the first)
• On a past project- i did it as a "repeating statement" in content controls, but then it wasn't allowing you to edit any of the text it brought in with that process. Basically you could only highlight or delete the ENTIRE repeating section. So only useful if you're NEVER going to edit anything in that entire section.
• The paragraph formatting in the document is set to have an indent of .25" in that section but it only applies it to the very first sentence of my intro.

Essentially the content controls and process I'm using are only able to create soft returns, which aren't starting a new paragraph. Any thoughts?