Zapier message formatting improvements
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Jackson James
Currently, there doesn't seem to be a way to use * and _ to format the messages that Zapier sends in Chat. This would be a very helpful addition, as formatting helps with the information hierarchy and scannability of messages in Chat channels.
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Brendan W
Hey Jackson James! Confirming, are you all good here now and this post can be closed?
Jackson James
Brendan W No, as the following items are still an issue:
- No options in Zapier to choose headings (H1, H2, H3, H4)
- No option to input a blank line break
- List formatting is still broken (unordered and ordered lists)
- When inputting text dynamically with the blockquote prefix (e.g. “> [Google Review body text]”), whenever the source text starts a new line/paragraph, it escapes from the blockquote formatting and just appears as normal text in the ClickUp channel…even though the “>” is correctly set before the dynamic tag
These are very frustrating.
Brendan W
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Zapier formatting bug
Jackson James
When we try to use asterisks (for example,
text
) to make Chat messages bold, it only makes them italic. Can this be fixed please?Viktor Lesyk
Hi, Tadej (ClickUp)! How is this improvement going?
I've reported a similar issue via support, and they suggested that I upvote here.
For me, the issue is the following:
When pasting text from external sources like ChatGPT, ClickUp does not interpret certain formatting elements correctly, leading to extra spaces and broken lists.
This adds up a lot of effort to manually correct the formatting of every description I’d paste from ChatGPT or any other external source.
Tadej Jevševar
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Tadej Jevševar
Hi Jackson James. Thank you for your feedback. The following actions will support HTML/Markdown formatting for richer content in the next ClickUp Zapier version:
- Send Chat message to channel
- Send DM message
- Create task
- Create subtask
- Post task comment
- Update task
Update will be available in a next few days.
Jackson James
Tadej Jevševar
Brilliant 👌🏻