Planner Task Link Attachment To OneNote Page 'Invalid'

Anonymous
2018-09-21T14:38:59+00:00

Good Morning,

Has anyone experienced an issue with the Task Attachment Links to OneNote becoming 'invalid urls'?  I have several Teams that have Planners and OneNote notebooks.  I typically have added a link on individual tasks to individual pages in the OneNote notebook for the Team/Planner group.  A few days ago, I noticed these links were still taking me to the OneNote notebook but not to the page...they were taking me to the first section first page only.

When editing the link anything to a page is considered an invalid url now.

Thanks

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Anonymous
2018-10-01T17:07:24+00:00

Hi All,

Thanks for all your feedback! We have involved more resources to check this issue and will share the updates once available. Here I would like to provide a summary so that other community members can easily identify the symptoms.

Symptoms:

When we go to Planner task > add attachment > Link > Add the link, we will get error message “Please enter a valid url” if the link including symbols like & ! ^ * “”

Assessment:

More resources have been involved to check this issue. We will post back when there is any update.

Thanks again for all your feedback to help us improve our services and products.

Update 

A fix will be coming out soon in future releases.

[Updated by Jim Liu MSFT,  02:48 AM, Oct 12 , 2018 (UTC)]

Regards,

Rena

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-27T16:21:39+00:00

    I suppose until someone on the Planner team fixes it. {shrug}

    It is better than my previous workaround where I put the link in the Description box and users had to copy and paste to a new tab in their browser.

    But yeah, I am surprised this has gone on this long.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-11-27T16:03:44+00:00

    Still not fixed, but I have a workaround that seems to be working for us.

    1. Copy the URL from OneNote as normal.
    2. Paste it into Notepad or any pure text editor. Do not use Word, Excel, or OneNote itself.
    3. You will have two URLs. One with HTTPS: and one with onenote:https://:
    4. Copy just the first one with HTTPS and paste that into Planner.

    So far that works. Now I think what broke in Planner is it wasn't getting those two URLs and discarding the one it didn't need. OneNote does that so if you paste it into a Windows app, like Excel, it will use the onenote: link which will open locally on your PC when you click it. The other, of course, is for the web link, which Planner needs.

    Thanks! But how long do we going to be doing this ?

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-11-27T15:36:53+00:00

    Still not fixed, but I have a workaround that seems to be working for us.

    1. Copy the URL from OneNote as normal.
    2. Paste it into Notepad or any pure text editor. Do not use Word, Excel, or OneNote itself.
    3. You will have two URLs. One with HTTPS: and one with onenote:https://:
    4. Copy just the first one with HTTPS and paste that into Planner.

    So far that works. Now I think what broke in Planner is it wasn't getting those two URLs and discarding the one it didn't need. OneNote does that so if you paste it into a Windows app, like Excel, it will use the onenote: link which will open locally on your PC when you click it. The other, of course, is for the web link, which Planner needs.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-11-27T13:46:39+00:00

    Any update on this? Still unable to paste links to SharePoint documents in Planner. It would be very helpful if we could link files from SharePoint sites outside of the current Planner, too.

    Receiving the following message when pasting long links from SharePoint or Office apps: Please enter a valid url

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