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Loss of Text Formatting in Notification Templates

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Notification emails configured in eisy.ui are not properly formatted in the emails as sent and received. I experimented by changing the radio buttons for text, html and xml, but the format in the emails did not change. Everything is jumbled together in non-formatted plain text appearing in the email as it is shown on the left side of the screenshot, unlike the right side of the screenshot where formatting includes line spacing and indentation. ISY-994 preserved the rich text format in emails, and that's what I'm trying to achieve again. Is this a bug in eisy.ui or is there something I'm missing ? I'm using the latest production repo 1.2.2.

Thanks.

Screenshot 2026-10-12 at 12.00.01 PM.png

@Javi I'm having exactly the same formatting problem but with the Notification service and UD Mobile Send Message (email migrated notifications).

Migrated HTML formatted emails are coming through UD Mobile Notifications with visible line break <br> tags and paragraph break <p> tags. Saved as HTML.

Removing the HTML tags runs the all the text into one long string. Saved as Text.

Let me know if you need more details.

Using Eisyui 1.4.2

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Thanks!

Edited by mmb

21 hours ago, Spring said:

Notification emails configured in eisy.ui are not properly formatted in the emails as sent and received. I experimented by changing the radio buttons for text, html and xml, but the format in the emails did not change. Everything is jumbled together in non-formatted plain text appearing in the email as it is shown on the left side of the screenshot, unlike the right side of the screenshot where formatting includes line spacing and indentation. ISY-994 preserved the rich text format in emails, and that's what I'm trying to achieve again. Is this a bug in eisy.ui or is there something I'm missing ? I'm using the latest production repo 1.2.2.

Thanks.

Screenshot 2026-10-12 at 12.00.01 PM.png

Are they set to HTML or TEXT on the bottom? Text will not translate to HTML

12 hours ago, mmb said:

@Javi I'm having exactly the same formatting problem but with the Notification service and UD Mobile Send Message (email migrated notifications).

Migrated HTML formatted emails are coming through UD Mobile Notifications with visible line break <br> tags and paragraph break <p> tags. Saved as HTML.

Removing the HTML tags runs the all the text into one long string. Saved as Text.

Let me know if you need more details.

Using Eisyui 1.4.2

image.png

Thanks!

HTML cannot be sent in Notifications must be text. See UD Mobile Event Template that is automatically generated by UD Mobile.

23 minutes ago, Javi said:

HTML cannot be sent in Notifications must be text. See UD Mobile Event Template that is automatically generated by UD Mobile.

Thanks, I removed the HTML tags and saved as text, it turned into this.

Body1.png

Body2.png

Hi @Javi , the formatted text with the HTML tags removed in the template in my first picture looks like this in UD Mobile, just like the template preview in EisyUI Notifications. Just one long string of text.

IMG_7182 (002).jpg

Ah, this was never a thing. Push Notification body has never sent or shown link breaks aside from Subject\nBody\nTime.

So nothing is broken in eisy-ui would need a feature request for investigation. Added issue 'Add Line breaks to Push Notification Body' ID: /eisy-ui/issues/108

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The attached screenshot shows two emails as received, the one on the left was sent Oct 9th and is formatted properly. That notification template (text) was migrated from ISY-994 to eisy and it displayed as expected in the eisy program on Oct 9th. Then I edited the notification in eisy.ui changing some wording, but leaving the line spacing as it was, and now the formatting has been stripped out. The radio button was set to text.

Screenshot 2026-10-13 at 12.54.45 PM.png

14 minutes ago, Spring said:

The attached screenshot shows two emails as received, the one on the left was sent Oct 9th and is formatted properly. That notification template (text) was migrated from ISY-994 to eisy and it displayed as expected in the eisy program on Oct 9th. Then I edited the notification in eisy.ui changing some wording, but leaving the line spacing as it was, and now the formatting has been stripped out. The radio button was set to text.

Screenshot 2026-10-13 at 12.54.45 PM.png

Looks like when it is saved in eisy-ui the HTML breaks or tags might be removed. Will need to investigate.

Can you post an example from from one that works in Admin Console so I have a test case?

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2 minutes ago, Javi said:

Looks like when it is saved in eisy-ui the HTML breaks or tags might be removed. Will need to investigate.

Can you post an example from from one that works in Admin Console so I have a test case?

These emails are being sent by a Program when an "If" statement triggers an event. The attached (Sep 13) email was sent when I was still using the Java based Admin Console, but I'm using macOS Golden Gate now, so I have no option to use anything other than eisy.ui. The earlier email examples were sent from a Program that was migrated from ISY-994 into eisy (and the format remained intact), then the notification text was edited in eisy.ui (and the format broke).

Screenshot 2026-10-13 at 1.27.13 PM.png

Understood, I need the exact String that works.

My guess is something is being filtered out, however this is a legacy method and I don't have custom SMTP setup so I cannot test myself, I can only test that the string is saved typed.

1 hour ago, Javi said:

Ah, this was never a thing. Push Notification body has never sent or shown link breaks aside from Subject\nBody\nTime.

So nothing is broken in eisy-ui would need a feature request for investigation. Added issue 'Add Line breaks to Push Notification Body' ID: /eisy-ui/issues/108

The strange thing it works, sometimes.

The EisyUI notification preview is just one long string.

IMG_7183 (002).jpgimage.png

29 minutes ago, mmb said:

The strange thing it works, sometimes.

The EisyUI notification preview is just one long string.

Update: Gemini AI stepped me through a way to add a life feed - unicode method.

Screenshot 2026-10-13 at 12.28.01 PM (002).png

5 minutes ago, Javi said:

Please share!

Word Hex Shortcut

If you have Microsoft Word, you can turn the hex code line feed into the character using a keyboard shortcut:

  1. Open Word

  2. Type exactly: 2029

  3. Immediately press Alt + X together.

  4. The numbers 2029 will transform into the invisible LINE separator. You can then copy and paste it where you need it.

The Notifications preview window is still unformatted but UD Mobile displays properly.

Anyway for now my notifications are now readable.

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