Ampersand in Trello not working

[juanmontero]

Greetings,
I am trying to send a url with "&" to trello, but it is received as &

Is there a way to escape this?

I have already tried multiple ways:
&
&
&
&
\%26
& 
\u0026

they are all parsed as & in trello

Underscores _ are also parsed as \_
Not sure how to fix this

Thanks

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @juanmontero

We are currently looking into your concern and will get back to you shortly.

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @juanmontero

We resolved your concern of conversion of _ and &. So, we have made a new endpoint of " Create A Card (With Plain Text type Description) " and use it to avoid such conversion now.

Basically, we were using markdown type in the backend for the description filed which result in the conversion of & to &amp, or u can say it is encoding the special character so to solve that problem we have created an endpoint that supports the plain text and it will not convert or encode anything you write in the description field.

Moreover, you can easily use & / and any special character with it. In the future, we will be working on how to give the ability to change the content type to the users themselves so we will not have to worry about creating multiple endpoints.

I hope this might help you. Please try this at your end and let us know if that work for you

 

[juanmontero]

Thanks, this fixed the "&" issue, but created another issue.

My description contains break lines, but now all those break lines are converted to <br />

So in trello I ended up having a block a text with a lot of <br />.

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @juanmontero

Sorry for the inconvenience. Please use Trello's "create a card with plain text" action event and let us know how it goes.

 

[juanmontero]

Thanks @Supreme Verma , this time it worked!