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REQUEST - Be able to Paste images into Notes and Comments field!
Just got an update from Microsoft on this yesterday: "We expect to begin rolling out the new rich text task notes field in mid-June (previously late March) and we expect to complete the rollout by late August 2023 (previously late July)."
It still won't include pasting images, but the data structure change described below is a necessary prerequisite to enabling images in the notes.
The report also says (much of this is the same as prior reports):
To support this capability, we are introducing a new rich text enabled task notes field in the Planner Microsoft Graph API. This will result in two task notes fields in our API – the new “rich text task notes field” and the existing “plain text task notes field.” When this feature launches, Planner for the Web and for Teams (Tasks app) will support rich text in task notes. Other Planner experiences in iOS, Android, SharePoint, and Power Automate will only support plain text task notes, but we plan to update these apps to support rich text at a later date.
When this feature update is deployed, all existing task notes content will be preserved in the new rich text enabled task notes field, so users will be able to continue viewing and editing notes without interruption.
We will maintain compatibility between the rich text task notes field and plain text task notes field by ensuring both fields’ contents stay in sync.
If a user edits the rich text task notes field, all content is synced to the plain text task notes field automatically. Any rich content is converted to plain text and synced to the plain text task notes field.
If a user edits the plain text task notes field via the Microsoft Graph API or via a client which only supports the plain text field, the contents in the plain text task notes field is synced to the rich text task notes field without modification. Therefore edits to the plain text task notes field will result in the removal of any pre-existing rich text, or text formatting in the rich text notes field.
GraniteStateColin I have been using the Rich text in the task description in Planner for several weeks now, but still missing from comments. And, as expected, there is still no way to paste images from the clipboard. So, maybe this is 10% progress. Better than nothing, but far from where we need to be.