Formatting content in Description field in Intune deployment

[AScott-WWF]

I'm looking for some advice how we can format the content placed in the Description field in an Intune deployment using Intune App Factory, In the App.json for my app(s) can easily place plain text content in there, but I have not been able to include line breaks etc.

When done manually, you can use Markdown to make text bold, underlined, headings, italic, quoted, bulleted etc
I'd like to make the content a little more pretty for users when they opt to install apps from the Company Portal where the app has been auto packaged by the Intune App Factory Pipeline.

What I'd like to do is a few things, I'll post a simple example of how we'd currently format the Description field for a Google Chrome deployment in the hope it becomes clearer what I'm asking:

## Google Chrome web browser
**Version:** 131.0.6778.140

**Release Date:** 10th December 2024

So in the Intune Portal, this would show as follows :

As well as formatting the text with Markdown during a run of the Intune App Factory pipeline I'd like to programatically place the version number and release date in there (I assume the Pipeline can replace this somehow?).
Using the Evergreen module (depending on the app) the results will return a release date, using Chrome again as an example:

get-evergreenApp -Name GoogleChrome | ft

Version        Channel  StartDate  Architecture Type URI
-------        -------  ---------  ------------ ---- ---
133.0.6891.0   Canary   12/12/2024 x86          exe  https://dl.google.com/update2/installers/ChromeSetup.exe
133.0.6876.4   Dev      05/12/2024 x64          msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/dev/googlechromedevstandaloneenterprise64.msi
133.0.6876.4   Dev      05/12/2024 x86          msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/dev/googlechromedevstandaloneenterprise.msi
132.0.6834.46  Beta     11/12/2024 x64          msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/beta/googlechromebetastandaloneenterprise64.msi
132.0.6834.46  Beta     11/12/2024 x86          msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/beta/googlechromebetastandaloneenterprise.msi
131.0.6778.140 Stable   10/12/2024 x64          msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi
131.0.6778.140 Stable   10/12/2024 x64          zip  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/GoogleChromeEnterpriseBundle64.zip
131.0.6778.140 Stable   10/12/2024 x86          msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi
130.0.6723.160 Extended 10/12/2024 x64          msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi
130.0.6723.160 Extended 10/12/2024 x86          msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi

The StartDate column above is the date this version was first detected as new by Evergreen, so this date could be used to populate the Release Date text - Although it would be nice to do a date conversion to a human readable date '10th December 2024' for example

Any advice gratefully recieved

[AScott-WWF]

I'm also looking into how I can populate the 'Information URL', 'Privacy URL' and 'Developer' fields, I can't seem to see any examples in the Template App.json (Found in: Templates\Application\App.json)
But, having dug a little deeper, I suspect this may need a modification of the .\IntuneAppFactory\Scripts\New-Win32Apps.ps1 file? The following code needs to be added between lines 596 & 597 (I have tested and it works):

if (-not([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($AppData.Information.InformationURL))) {
    $Win32AppArgs.Add("InformationURL", $AppData.Information.InformationURL)
}
if (-not([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($AppData.Information.PrivacyURL))) {
    $Win32AppArgs.Add("PrivacyURL", $AppData.Information.PrivacyURL)
}
if (-not([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($AppData.Information.Developer))) {
    $Win32AppArgs.Add("Developer", $AppData.Information.Developer)
}

[AScott-WWF]

Another step forward, I have worked out that I can use \n to place a new line between Markdown content to keep the .json context on a single line, so in my Notepad++ App.json, I now have the following in the Description:

...
"Description": "##Notepad++ [Version]\n**Release Date:** [Date]\nNotepad++ nis a popular Open Source text editor."
...

So the final challenge now is how I place (replace) in the content (from the pipeline) the Version (replacing the [Version] placeholder) and Release Date (replacing the [Date] placeholder)