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REQUEST - Be able to Paste images into Notes and Comments field!
friend of mine found a nice work around for planner, but powerapps ultimately could serve you better as it is dynamic through connections with sharepoing lists and patch commands.
Build screen/component for editing/adding data through a form in powerapps. Read/patch powerapp entries to sharepoint column (you can use same fields as in planner, or more). Then on powerapp screen include a paste only html text box. paste image. on submit html textbox data (containing only an image) converts image to base 64 and patches to sharepoint list for image column. powerapp then reads back in the image for future edit/viewing. good luck.
joeadkins33, that's a clever approach. Unfortunately, for me, I need to be able to have images (screen shots) in comments to show developers "Here's an issue, see picture." An attached file is separate from the comments so it will be difficult to decipher which image goes with which comment. If a feature or bugfix has a lot of back-and-forth, this can make the whole task impossible to follow.
- And they have pushed the release date out yet again, until June this time. I have zero confidence in any Microsoft dates related to this (and started to affect my MS trust overall).
https://www.microsoft.com/en-sg/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85688- Even worse, this feature 85688 now excludes pictures :
"Support for images in the notes field will not be included with this feature release but we are tracking that capability on our backlog."
https://www.microsoft.com/en-sg/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85688
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Common MS... -_-'- grandpas, yeah, it's pasting pictures that I most care about. However, in the background info on this update, it appears enabling this rich text field in a parallel data structure, so the plain text one still works on older clients (via the MS API, probably not directly a user-facing issue) is a prerequisite to being able to add the ability to paste images.
That makes sense. It's unfortunate from a timing perspective, because it means further delays to get the feature we need, but at least seeing that they have implemented Rich Text in comments will mean they are closer to having a data structure capable of handling images.
GraniteStateColin A B S O L U T E L L Y A G R E E ! !
- I think this string relates to Planner but To Do has the exact same problem. So inefficient to have to save a snippet as an image and attach. It's a whip for the person who has to do it and a whip for the person that has to open it!
- on powerapps screen when you past image to htmltext box, you can have another text only box. then you can use power automate online flow to store your text you typed for that image, and the base64 of images, and store both to a sharepoint online list. then you can feed both back into a gallery in powerapps. this will give you images with text. we are using this method now. that's a high level overview and requires certain formulas for onsubmit button in powerapps patch commands.
