-Text strings ignore '_' underscore character.

[TechDufus]

When including the underscore character in any -Text value, the underscores are replaced with null space.

Example:

$PoolName = "App_Pool_01"
$SectionParams = @{
    ActivityTitle = "**Application Pool Recycle**"
    ActivitySubtitle = "@$env:USERNAME - $(Get-Date)"
    ActivityText = "Recycled Pool: $PoolName"
    SectionInput = [scriptblock] {
        New-TeamsButton -Name 'View Logs' -Type OpenUri -Link 'https://some.link.com'
    }
    Text = "An app pool recycle of $PoolName was initiated by $env:USERNAME"
}
Send-TeamsMessage {
    New-TeamsSection @SectionParams
} -Uri $Uri -Color DarkSeaGreen -MessageSummary 'Pool Recycle'

You can see in the following screenshot that it was removed the underscores from the app pool names.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Actually, they don't ignore it, but in my opinion, they try to convert it to markdown.

Teams support basic markdown. _test_ should give you italics. And that's what I see on the screen, that Pool01 is converted to italics. Is it possible the name is App_Pool_01? If so, you would need to escape it.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

I can see in issue https://github.com/jenkinsci/office-365-connector-plugin/issues/82 someone proposed using ticks

facts:
- name: "With back ticks"
  value: "`{{ this_is_it }}`"

Try it out.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

New-AdaptiveCard -Uri $Env:TEAMSPESTERID -VerticalContentAlignment center {
    New-AdaptiveColumnSet {
        New-AdaptiveColumn {
            New-AdaptiveTextBlock -Size 'Medium' -Text 'Test Card _Title_ 1' -Color Warning
            New-AdaptiveTextBlock -Size 'Medium' -Text "Test Card \_Title_ 1" -Color Warning # This works
            New-AdaptiveTextBlock -Size 'Medium' -Text "Test Card \_Title\_ 1" -Color Warning # This works
            $Text = "Test Card _Title_ 1" -replace '_','\_'
            New-AdaptiveTextBlock -Size 'Medium' -Text $Text -Color Warning # This works
        }
    }
} -Verbose

So potentially we could add a switch called -EscapeMarkdown which would find all possible options that markdown triggers on and have it automatically fix it for a user. For now, my suggestion is to simply use the replacement proposed.

[TechDufus]

Good call.. I wrote this function to fix this...

        #Region Invoke-EscapeCharacters
        
        Function Invoke-EscapeCharacters() {
            [CmdletBinding()]
            Param(
                [Parameter()]
                [Char] $Character,

                [Parameter(Mandatory)]
                [System.String] $InputString
            )

            Process {
                [System.String] $Character = $Character.ToString()
                $InputString.Replace($Character, "\$Character")
            }
        }
        #EndRegion Invoke-EscapeCharacters

My code looks something like this for now...

$PoolName = "App_Pool_01"
$SectionParams = @{
    ActivityTitle = "**Application Pool Recycle**"
    ActivitySubtitle = "@$env:USERNAME - $(Get-Date)"
    ActivityText = (Invoke-EscapeCharacters -Character _ -InputString "Recycled Pool: $PoolName")
    SectionInput = [scriptblock] {
        New-TeamsButton -Name 'View Logs' -Type OpenUri -Link 'https://some.link.com'
    }
    Text = "An app pool recycle of $(Invoke-EscapeCharacters -Character _ -InputString $PoolName) was initiated by $env:USERNAME"
}
Send-TeamsMessage {
    New-TeamsSection @SectionParams
} -Uri $Uri -Color DarkSeaGreen -MessageSummary 'Pool Recycle'

[PrzemyslawKlys]

You don't need to do this inside Text. You can do it for the whole text. That is my point. As long as you don't plan using markdown you can escape all _ it can find. Same for * and other markdown chars. This way you don't have to "think" about it.

[TechDufus]

How exactly would you do this for the whole Text at once? o.O

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Using your function and example:

Function Invoke-EscapeCharacters() {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param(
        [Parameter()]
        [Char] $Character,

        [Parameter(Mandatory)]
        [System.String] $InputString
    )

    Process {
        [System.String] $Character = $Character.ToString()
        $InputString.Replace($Character, "\$Character")
    }
}
#EndRegion Invoke-EscapeCharacters

$PoolName = "App_Pool_01"
$SectionParams = @{
    ActivityTitle    = "**Application Pool Recycle**"
    ActivitySubtitle = "@$env:USERNAME - $(Get-Date)"
    ActivityText     = (Invoke-EscapeCharacters -Character _ -InputString "Recycled Pool: $PoolName")
    SectionInput     = [scriptblock] {
        New-TeamsButton -Name 'View Logs' -Type OpenUri -Link 'https://some.link.com'
    }
    Text             = Invoke-EscapeCharacters -Character _ -InputString "An app pool recycle of $PoolName was initiated by $env:USERNAME"
}
Send-TeamsMessage {
    New-TeamsSection @SectionParams
} -Uri $Uri -Color DarkSeaGreen -MessageSummary 'Pool Recycle'

In other words it would be possible to easily extend all text functions to turn off Markdown. In theory it would be possible to "disable" markdown on Send-TeamsMessage level as well - I guess.

I hope someone will try to PR this. Otherwise if I will have a need for it I'll fix it myself.