How to format text with bullets in Comment activity

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

It has always been a little annoying that the Comment activity doesn’t respect carriage returns and just smushes everything together. But did you know you can do bullets?

If you put a dash at the beginning of a line, it makes it a bullet. If you put a space then a dash, it makes it a sub-bullet. If you put two spaces then a dash it makes it a sub-bullet of the sub-bullet!

- Top level bullet
 - Sub bullet
  - Sub sub bullet
  - Sub sub bullet
 - Sub bullet
  - Sub Sub bullet
- Top level bullet
 - Sub bullet
  - Sub sub bullet

I wish it didn’t add the extra line after each bullet, it wastes space, but it’s still better than nothing. I wonder what other formatting tricks there are.

You can also use * instead of the - to get bullets:

Double underscore makes the text italic:

A single * before and after makes it bold!

If you put \\ and an empty line, it does do the line break:

You can combine them:

If you find any other formatting tricks, add them here!

[benjamin.keller]

Seems like the comment Activity supports something similar to Markdown. I can only speak of how this is rendered in UiPath Studio 2024.10.10.
Similar because quite some Markdown formatting is supported like bullet lists ( -), numbered lists ( 1.), headings (#), links ( - allthough just formatting, not actually clickable however, underlined when hovered over​), code (enclosed in ` - allthough not formatted in other typeface - )
Other features of Markdown are not supported (strikethrough, superscript, subscript, tables, quotes, code blocks etc.)
What’s quite strange is that the syntax for italic and bold is reversed. Markdown is bold or bold and italic or italic whereas in the comment activity it is bold or bold and italic or italic However, enclosing text in *** or ___ displays as bold and italic which is again the same as in Markdown

I stumbeled upon this topic when I wanted to mention a variable name with an _ in its name.

Unfortunately I didn’t find any clues in official UiPath documentation.

[benjamin.keller]

Seems like the comment Activity supports something similar to Markdown. I can only speak of how this is rendered in UiPath Studio 2024.10.10.
Similar because quite some Markdown formatting is supported like bullet lists ( -), numbered lists ( 1.), headings (#), links ([] - allthough just formatting, not actually clickable however, underlined when hovered over​), code (enclosed in ` - allthough not formatted in other typeface - )
Other features of Markdown are not supported (strikethrough, superscript, subscript, tables, quotes, code blocks etc.)
What’s quite strange is that the syntax for italic and bold is reversed. Markdown is __bold__ or **bold** and _italic_ or *italic* whereas in the comment activity it is _bold_ or *bold* and __italic__ or **italic** However, enclosing text in *** or ___ displays as bold and italic which is again the same as in Markdown

I stumbeled upon this topic when I wanted to mention a variable name with an _ in its name.

Unfortunately I didn’t find any clues in official UiPath documentation.
Formatting syntax of the forum was messing with me and I didn’t check the preview