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Markdown generation fails if action has * in the name

Open Niqlash opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug We have a Power Automate action that has an asterisk (*) in the name (for example Get a row by ID *pending change*). The Word file generation works perfectly fine and can handle this special character. However, the Markdown generation fails. From what I understand it's because the Markdown generation creates a md file for each action in Power Automate and asterisk is not allowed inside the file name.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create a simple Power Automate flow
  2. Rename an action so that the action name contains an asterisk (*)
  3. Export flow as Zip file
  4. Generate Markdown documentation with PowerDocu

Expected behavior I think it would be best if the asterisk could simply be skipped in the file name when creating the md file. I'm not sure but there might also be other special characters that are allowed within the action name but not within file names that could cause this kind of issue.

Flow Used The issue occurs with any flow that contains actions that have an asterisk in the name. For me, I've tested it with a solution-aware flow (the flow causing the issue is part of a bigger solution).

Niqlash avatar May 19 '23 15:05 Niqlash