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REQUEST - Be able to Paste images into Notes and Comments field!
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.
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.
Not being able to paste pictures on Microsoft Planner is a significant drawback for users who rely on visual aids for effective communication and task management. Without image support, tasks and comments lack the clarity and context that pictures provide, potentially leading to misunderstandings and reduced productivity. I am not using it as much as I could because of this downside.
Microsoft please listen!
The feature request is working its way up the list of Planner requests for Microsoft. Just another 28 votes and this makes it to the first page. If you agree with this please upvote.
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/cd2c8f5e-5421-ee11-a81d-0022484cae1d
Also, if we put some pressure on the Teams group, they may be able to push the Planner developers to up the priority on this. Here's a link to this request within Teams:https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/c1b3719a-6620-ee11-a81d-0022484cae1d
Please upvote both of those if this feature matters to you. Also, if you have the time, consider adding a comment for how this matters to you and why (but if no time, just hit the thumbs up button to vote for it). Comments both help MS understand what we're asking (so be clear what you want) and help them see the passion for the feature need.
Yeah, absolutely agree on the importance and the use-case that requires it: visual aids for task feedback. In our case, for software development, we need to include screen shots with almost every comment.
The net effect of this being missing from Planner is even worse for us in terms of usage. Because our users require this ability, they won't use Planner, and w/o Planner, that means they need something else, and most of those other tools link well with competing systems to Teams (like Jira in place of Planner and Slack in place of Teams and Confluence over OneDrive), so this failure prevents us from moving everyone over to Teams and OneDrive. It's costing MS a lot of potential license sales from our organization.
Worst of all is how close Planner is to being amazing. And Teams Chat already does this PERFECTLY. The ONLY feature Planner is lacking from our perspective (I know other users may have other needs) is the ability to paste images into the initial description and into subsequent comments. And if I had to pick one, I'd pick comments over the initial description (because you could always just add comments to your own Task even if you're the one creating it, but no work-around if you can't paste them into comments).
