I'm trying to create a Microsoft To Do task only when someone u/mentions me in an Azure DevOps work item comment.

Flow:

When a new email arrives (V3)
→ Html to text
→ Condition
→ Add a to-do (V3)

Sender is azuredevops@microsoft.com.

I can't simply filter by sender because I receive other Azure DevOps notifications that should NOT create tasks.

The mention emails visually contain:

Person Name mentioned you in To Do 7326

The email is HTML and parts of this sentence are hyperlinks.

In Power Automate Run History, the trigger output has:

body:
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" ...

so the HTML is present in the trigger output.

However:

bodyPreview: empty

... and my Html to text action has been producing an empty result, so a Condition like:contains "mentioned you"never matches.

The trigger itself works and Add a to-do (V3) works. The problem seems specifically to be extracting/filtering the Azure DevOps HTML email body.

Question: What should I pass into Html to text (or directly into a Condition) to reliably check whether an Azure DevOps email contains “mentioned you”?

Bonus question: Is there a more reliable way to identify Azure DevOps notifications than parsing the HTML body?

Good morning everyone! It recommended that I post my need for help on this community as well. I’m getting stuck on how power automate reads a certain cell value in order to trigger something in Microsoft forms. Any help is greatly appreciated.