Inventory Markdown Language Display Issue

I’m attempting to utilized Markdown Language to display a custom login message when navigating to our BF Inventory page, but for some reason the use of asterisks and underscores is not working. I’m attempting to display:

Sample Login
User Name: johndoe
Password: johndoe password

But the login page is only displaying:

Sample Login
User Name: johndoe
Password: johndoe password

Is there an known bug with this particular feature? The markdown asterisks and underscores aren’t showing up so it’s picking up the formatting, but not displaying it properly.

Perhaps a browser setting? Any assistance is appreciated.

The markdown on the forum seems to be doing the same thing you are complaining about so can you use the </> markdown button above where you type to show the text you are trying to get? Seems like a common problem :slight_smile:

Wanting to display:

Sample Login
User Name: johndoe
Password: johndoe password

Text within ‘Custom Message on Login Page’ text field:

**Sample Login** User Name: *johndoe* Password: *johndoe password*

Text actually being displayed:

Sample Login
User Name: johndoe
Password: johndoe password

*This text will be italic*
_This will also be italic_

**This text will be bold**
__This will also be bold__

Something could be escaping your tags.

Any possibilty to show more of what you have?

The content mentioned above is all that is in the field. From the picture you can see that I’ve tried using both underscores as well as asterisks to get the formatting I want. Neither work.

You could try with another web browser(where you don’t have the page open), or deleting the cache of your browser, have you tried that?
it could be that your browser is showing the cache content of the page.

That’s an excellent suggestion fermt.

I had a colleague of mine navigate to the URL and he is still seeing the same unformatted text. We are still in the process of developing our BigFix environment and he had never navigated to the page, so no cache. We tried both IE 11 and the latest version of Chrome.

Is anyone else able to correctly display a logon message with formatting?

UPDATE

The issue seems to be isolated to only BigFix Compliance. I pasted the exact same content within BigFix Inventory’s “Custom Message on Login Page” text box and the formatting appeared.

BigFix Compliance: v1.8.16
BigFix Inventory: v9.2.4.0-20160615-1904




It looks like to escape an asterix you need to put either a backslash or double backslash in front in markdown. This means you would need to do:

\*\*Sample Login\*\*
User Name: \*johndoe\*
Password: \*johndoe password\*

In the markdown in this forum if I type \* I just get * for example