diff --git a/src/labthings/apispec/plugins.py b/src/labthings/apispec/plugins.py
index 7d9459b6..88adc45b 100644
--- a/src/labthings/apispec/plugins.py
+++ b/src/labthings/apispec/plugins.py
@@ -60,14 +60,19 @@ def spec_for_interaction(cls, interaction):
 
         for method in http_method_funcs:
             if hasattr(interaction, method):
+                prop = getattr(interaction, method)
                 d[method] = {
-                    "description": getattr(interaction, "description", None)
-                    or get_docstring(interaction),
-                    "summary": getattr(interaction, "summary", None)
+                    "description": getattr(prop, "description", None)
+                    or get_docstring(prop, remove_newlines=False)
+                    or getattr(interaction, "description", None)
+                    or get_docstring(interaction, remove_newlines=False),
+                    "summary": getattr(prop, "summary", None)
+                    or get_summary(prop)
+                    or getattr(interaction, "summary", None)
                     or get_summary(interaction),
                     "tags": list(interaction.get_tags()),
                     "responses": {
-                        "default": {
+                        "5XX": {
                             "description": "Unexpected error",
                             "content": {
                                 "application/json": {
diff --git a/src/labthings/utilities.py b/src/labthings/utilities.py
index 9a4407cd..35d5c710 100644
--- a/src/labthings/utilities.py
+++ b/src/labthings/utilities.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import copy
+import inspect
 import operator
 import os
 import re
@@ -152,12 +153,12 @@ def get_docstring(obj: Any, remove_newlines=True) -> str:
 
     """
     ds = obj.__doc__
-    if ds:
+    if not ds:
+        return ""
+    if remove_newlines:
         stripped = [line.strip() for line in ds.splitlines() if line]
-        if not remove_newlines:
-            return "\n".join(stripped)
         return " ".join(stripped).replace("\n", " ").replace("\r", "")
-    return ""
+    return inspect.cleandoc(ds)  # Strip spurious indentation/newlines
 
 
 def get_summary(obj: Any) -> str:
diff --git a/src/labthings/views/__init__.py b/src/labthings/views/__init__.py
index 68604f8b..d5c198b9 100644
--- a/src/labthings/views/__init__.py
+++ b/src/labthings/views/__init__.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
     build_action_schema,
 )
 from ..utilities import unpack
-from . import builder, op
 
 __all__ = ["MethodView", "View", "ActionView", "PropertyView", "op", "builder"]
 
@@ -172,7 +171,12 @@ def __init_subclass__(cls):
     @classmethod
     def get(cls):
         """
-        Default method for GET requests. Returns the action queue (including already finished actions) for this action
+        List running and completed actions.
+
+        Actions are run with `POST` requests.  See the `POST` method for this URL for
+        details of the action.  Sending a `GET` request to an action endpoint will return
+        action descriptions for each time the action has been run, including whether they
+        have completed, and any return values.
         """
         queue_schema = build_action_schema(cls.schema, cls.args)(many=True)
         return queue_schema.dump(cls._deque)
diff --git a/src/labthings/views/builder.py b/src/labthings/views/builder.py
index 03bccc6b..d6868a3f 100644
--- a/src/labthings/views/builder.py
+++ b/src/labthings/views/builder.py
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 from typing import Type
 
 from flask import abort, send_file
-from flask.views import MethodView
+from . import View
 
 
-def static_from(static_folder: str, name=None) -> Type[MethodView]:
+def static_from(static_folder: str, name=None) -> Type[View]:
     """
     :param static_folder: str:
     :param name:  (Default value = None)
@@ -37,6 +37,6 @@ def _get(_, path=""):
             return send_file(indexes[0])
 
     # Generate a basic property class
-    generated_class = type(name, (MethodView, object), {"get": _get})
+    generated_class = type(name, (View, object), {"get": _get})
 
     return generated_class
diff --git a/tests/test_utilities.py b/tests/test_utilities.py
index fecd6856..eab062a4 100644
--- a/tests/test_utilities.py
+++ b/tests/test_utilities.py
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ def test_get_docstring(example_class):
         utilities.get_docstring(example_class)
         == "First line of class docstring. Second line of class docstring. "
     )
+    assert (
+        utilities.get_docstring(example_class, remove_newlines=False)
+        == "First line of class docstring.\nSecond line of class docstring."
+    )
 
     assert utilities.get_docstring(example_class.class_method) == (
         "First line of class method docstring. Second line of class method docstring. "