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.

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.

joeadkins33 

Good suggestion but rather if MS would come through with an Upgrade!!

iavoo 

has anyone got contact with Microsoft re this, it would be nice to be able to plan use of this inconjuction with the data verse and a digital implementation, I'm trying to get people to use Microsoft 365 but struggle with its works but... situations.
not being able to paste a photo, seems like a simple feature. could we link the photo in the comments to a persons OneDrive storage at the least? if its a data overhead problem?
it ppears we have been asking for this feature for a couple of years now 😮 🙂

kind regards

Wayne

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.