Long text field with Rich Text format
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Kim Hoang (BF)
We use the long text field in List view for writing status notes in every task after a meeting. (a kind of meeting notes)
For easily seeing what is the latest status notes, we always add the latest date on top of the text field so we can remember what we discussed or agreed on decision and action or information from the last weekly tactical meeting
The long text field we use to display in the list view can be shown as an example below:
- 20/01/20 Customer agreed to sign the contract.
- 15/01/20 No answer from the customer
- 10/01/20 Roy will call the customer
To distinguish the different contents in the text field, we need a simple rich text editor with some important features such as Bullets, Numbering, Bold Text, Strikethrough, color, and URL link would be great.
Other important feature should be improved can be
1 - The text field can be "pop out" with at least 5 rows and extra-wide instead of 2 rows as we have now. (See screenshot 1 attached or Monday.com here https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001150345-The-Long-Text-Column)
- At the right end corner, we can drag and drop the field frame box to resize the field size as we wanted to show more or lest text contents
- When popping out, the text field will display text which is laying on top of the frame first instead of display text at the bottom of the window frame as default. Right now when we click to pop out the window, we have to scroll to the top the read the newest text content laying on top of the text field which is not very user-friendly. If you open any Word document or PDF file, the application doesn't show you text at the bottom or last page of the document as default right? It always shows you the first page so you can start and read the document from page one.
2 - Option for adding command date = (/today) would be fantastic so we don't have to type in today date manually (See screenshot 2)
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Caroline Ginty
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Excited to announce that this feature is now available for all Workspaces! Please comment here with any feedback as you start using it.
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Lev Bergfeld
Can we access this via the API??? Caroline Ginty
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Lucas Medeiros
Can this feature be implemented when entering text into a Form?
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Tom McCaul
Caroline Ginty great this feature is live but as you can see from the features below it's very important that we have API support
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Lev Bergfeld
When we will be able to access the rich text through the api. This would be huge for my team.
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Lev Bergfeld
What does the time line look like here for the team to work on this
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Lev Bergfeld
Anything here
Caroline Ginty
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Excited to announce that this feature is now available for all Workspaces! Please comment here with any feedback as you start using it.
Hannah Johnson
Caroline Ginty: Thanks Caroline! Do you know if that rich text bug has been fixed and if so if you could turn this back on for our workspace?
It says we're up to date but I don't see the rich text option.
Pascal Vuylsteker
Caroline Ginty: Great piece of news. I see that we can now access the / commands and the markdow input. Is there a plan to get the formating bar as well for the les teck savy users ?
Oh, forget my question. I see that it is indeed there as well once you select some existing text. Thank you !
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Nate Barish
We also need a way to get the markdown of the rich text fields via the api. similar to how we can pass "include_markdown_description=true" in order to get markdown for the description.
Kim Hoang (BF)
IMPROVEMENT FEEDBACK #3
If you examine the Task split screen view available at https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/redesign-the-task-view, you'll notice that when a task is open in split screen view, pressing the ESC key closes the task view.
Why not extend the same functionality to the Long Text Field? After completing the editing or data entry process, it would be beneficial to enable the closure of the text field window by simply pressing the ESC key.
The current requirement to use the mouse and click outside the text field for closure involves unnecessary clicks, and incorporating the ESC key functionality would streamline the process, providing a more user-friendly experience.
Kim Hoang (BF)
IMPROVEMENT FEEDBACK #2
Please give us an option to tag people. In the task description field, we can tag people. It would be fantastic if we could tag people in the long text field too.
Kim Hoang (BF)
IMPROVEMENT FEEDBACK #1
- Give us the custom option to resize the text window vertically or horizontally left, right, up, and down.
- Slash command to paste Today's date as plain text, as seen in this feature request here https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/slash-command-to-paste-todays-date-as-plain-text
If these two functionalities are in place then the Long text field with Rich Text format feature you have been working on is perfect. :)
Very well done!
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Kim Hoang
Caroline Ginty: Where can we send feedback? Shall we send our feedback here on this request or is there a dedicated feedback form?
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