Orchard Workflows - keep format of text in textarea - orchardcms

Question

I have a workflow that sends an email when a form is submitted that contains a textarea.
My problem is that the formatting of the content entered into the textarea is lost (e.g. carriage returns / paragraphs) when the email is sent.
Is there a way to maintain the content exactly as the user entered it? At present I am using this to output the content in the Email activity:
<p>Message:<br/>
{Request.Form:Message}</p>
It is running Orchard 1.10.2. Any help much appreciated!

Answer 1

EDIT
If you use dynamic forms this syntax will work:
FormSubmission.Field:Message.LineEncode
If it is your own form I'm afraid it looks like it is a bug in Orchard where the chained value of a Request.Form is actually retrieving the named query string parameter instead. To sort this you will have to edit this file of the source: Orchard.Tokens.Providers.RequestTokens.
Add a new method:
private static Tuple<string, string> FilterChainParam(string token, string tokenType) {
if(token.StartsWith(tokenType, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) {
return FilterChainParam(token);
}
return null;
}
Then replace this line in the Evaluate method:
.Chain(FilterChainParam, "Text", (token, request) => request.QueryString.Get(token))
with these lines:
.Chain((token) => FilterChainParam(token, "QueryString"), "Text", (token, request) => request.QueryString.Get(token))
.Chain((token) => FilterChainParam(token, "Form"), "Text", (token, request) => request.Form.Get(token))
.Chain((token) => FilterChainParam(token, "Route"), "Text", (token, request) => GetRouteValue(token, request))
Not particularly pretty but it works. You can now use as below (note the parentheses around your form field)
ORIGINAL
Your form will come through with just new lines (\n) which the email client will ignore. You'll need to replace them with line breaks. Fortunately someone thought of this and there is a token for that in Orchard: LineEncode. Change your email activity to:
<p>Message:<br/>
{Request.Form:(Message).LineEncode}</p>