Slack Notification - HTML identifiers visible

Developers
#1

When inserting notes or comments from a DocType in a Slack Notification, the HMTL identifiers such as <.div> and <./div> also get pulled into the notification (added the points to make the identifiers visible).

Is there a way around this?

This is the reference I use to get the notes: {{ doc.notes }}

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#2

We are also facing this issue,. We are currently using slack apps for getting notifications when issue doctypes are created. The description field which is of field type “Text-editor” in Issue is coming with html tags. For e.g. the field description in slack channel in one particular issue is as attachment

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As we can see above html tags are being transmitted from erpnext to slack.

Tagging @surajshetty for support.

#3

I think this is a bug. It happen to me too :slight_smile:

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#4

Thanks @rahy . Any way we can temporarily overcome this until its fixed ?

#5

@harsha,
Sorry… I don’t know.
I use Slack for internal (admin) notification so I don’t bother to look for a solution, at least for now.

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#6

Cool. We also using internally, but just trying to decrease the effort on our team while reading notifications. Lets see if anyone else can suggest or someone could fix it up.

#7

Slack doesn’t allow HTML formatting. Instead, you can use markdown formatting
You can find it in the documentation.

https://docs.erpnext.com/docs/user/manual/en/setting-up/notifications#22-message-format

#8

In this case we are just passing the description in Jinja format as below. The formatting I believe is in built in Description field which is of type “text-editor” as I mentioned below and probably the issue. Below is code we are using in notification as per standard slack notification format. Should we pass on the doc.description field in a different way ?

Case Number : {{ doc.name }}
Created Date : {{ doc.opening_date }}

Details

  • Caller name : {{ doc.km_caller_name }}
  • Phone No : {{ doc.raised_by_phone }}
  • District : {{ doc.km_district_case }}
  • Mandal : {{ doc.km_mandal_case }}
  • Village : {{ doc.km_village_case }}
  • Subject : {{ doc.subject }}
  • Description : {{doc.description }}
  • Created by : {{ doc.raised_by }}
#9

i have this issue when sending notifications via SMS as well. The received sms contains HTML tags, like

<p> You have a new message.</p>

Any workarounds?