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REQUEST - Be able to Paste images into Notes and Comments field!
This is must! Tools like Trello already have this and this actually is stepback for some people wanting to migrate. They see that they can't paste images, they go to Trello.
- Let's keep this post UP to see if the DEVS pay attention to this request!
JeanBLM, this request currently sits at the top of the second page of requested features for Planner. It's been rising steadily to the paint that we're only 3 votes away from moving to page 1, overtaking the bottom item there, where it gets tougher for the Microsoft Planner dev team to ignore this. Please consider voting for it and getting your colleagues to vote for it here:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/c1b3719a-6620-ee11-a81d-0022484cae1d
Having those two fields be rich text fields with image pasting would make us immediately start using Planner. We've been toeing around Teams for years as a design team because having to save screenshots (sometimes even upload them to sharepoint first for some reason) whenever we want to present a visual reference is a huge waste of time, when we could just copy them and paste them into a skype message or email instead.
It's also important as evidence of completed tasks.
- Come on Microsoft. My organization NEEDS this feature. The fact that one the thousands of engineers at MS have not enabled users the ability to simply paste images into comments, notes for Planner (or SP) is disappointing. Please guys, enable this feature so we all can be more productive and organized 👍👍:cat_face:🏍
joeadkins33 Agree, attachment feature is a requirement for us, but adding another feature to capture images is great. Not just instead of...but in addition to...
- Agreed with everything said here. It really is a shame this is missing.
- Looks like this is finally on the Planner roadmap with GA scheduled for Dec 2021. Microsoft Planner: Rich text and images in Planner task notes (Roadmap ID 85688).
This is GREAT NEWS!! Here's a URL for others who end up on this page like I did when searching for information on this to check on the status: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85688.
Now let's just hope that MS can keep to this schedule. For us, like for other posts here, this is the critical deficiency with Planner. We can't use it for software development if we can't quickly and easily paste screen shots into comments or initial task items. The way this works in Jira, Trello, or even Microsoft's own Teams Chat/Posts is perfect. Need to be able to paste images, not save them to a file, then navigate to the file to attach them. That turns a 1 second process into about a minute, which is long enough to destroy productivity and keep the team from being willing to use Planner, which in turn undermines interest in Teams too (even though Teams supports this capability in its own Chat windows, if we have to use Jira or Trello for project work, then Teams is much less attractive as a platform).So glad it looks like this is finally coming to Planner too.
- WOW! Finally 🙂
Microsoft Planner: Rich text and images in Planner task notes
The Planner task notes field will support rendering rich text formatting (bold, italics, underline, and more) and image previews. Users can insert rich text and images into task notes.
Feature ID: 85688
Added to roadmap: 10/13/2021
Last modified: 10/13/2021
Product(s): Planner
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web, Teams and Surface Devices
Release phase(s): General Availability
- Definitely a requirement for a proper Kanban solution
Totally need to agree to this - it is just such a poor user experience compared to trello. It can't be that much of an effort to have the possibility to edit text and copy paste images out of the snipet tool - by the way also a MS product 🙂
I totally agree the requirement and a must for using Planner and MS Project for Web for professional use cases and managing projects. It is in most caese not practicable to save a screenshot before using it i for description for a planner task. PLease let us know, when this feature will be planned in the next future! djheyvoon
- Please be sure to hit the gear in the upper right of Planner, select "Send Planner feedback" and keep letting Microsoft know. Keep submitting every month or quarter, so they don't lose track of this or forget how many of us want this. It was among the most requested features back when there was a Customer Voice site for Planner.
Agree! Need this
GraniteStateColin "Please be sure to hit the gear in the upper right of Planner, select "Send Planner feedback" where? Image pls
- I can't believe there is no progress in four years... That spoils my motivation in our current migration to Office 365. (Same as missing @mentions in OneNote)
00thomson we migrated to the new "To Do" tool a couple years ago, however, it has the exact same issue. You still can't paste images or snippets into the Add note field.
- It seems like Microsoft really screwed up the architecture of this, using a text field instead of a field that can hold images and other non-text formatting and objects. I believe they carried this design over from the text fields associated with Tasks in the very powerful Microsoft Project. But where that was acceptable in Project due to its timeline and % complete focus, it's completely broken in a Planner app, which is designed from the start to work like a Scrum or Kanban Board.
This is why their first step to addressing this was to add the ability to include formatting (Bold, Italic, etc.) into the main description field, BUT they still haven't made any updates to the Comments fields. I think they must still be years away from actually fixing this critical deficiency compared with competing solutions like Asana, Trello, Jira, and every other Scrum or Kanban style project management system on the market.
00thomson, we may be getting closer to MS doing this. We're halfway up the second page of hottest feature requests to MS. Just 21 more votes (7 less than a few weeks ago even as other requests also received up-votes) to reach page 1 of their requests.
If this still matters to you, and you've not already voted, please consider voting for it and getting your colleagues to vote for it here: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/cd2c8f5e-5421-ee11-a81d-0022484cae1d
There is no guarantee that just because it reaches page 1 they'll address it, but it significantly increases the likelihood, especially if our comments make it clear how and why we need it. Probably helps to keep them constructive and actionable too.
Posted more than 4 years ago and Microsoft is still not able to implement such a small change which would make life for most of the users much easier. Poor service Microsoft!!!
