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
    2019-01-15T02:14:57+00:00

    Hi Ed Hansberry,

    The issue has already been fixed. If it does not work on your side, I would suggest you start a new thread in our forum with the detailed information of the situation so that we can help you troubleshoot on it.

    A small tip for you: when testing on my side, it will also display the error if it contains a space after the URL. This usually happens when copying and pasting the links.

    Thanks,

    Ran

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-15T12:10:45+00:00

    Still isn't working on our end either, could you let us know what version it was fixed in because I am still getting the same error as in the first screenshot.

    I've verified there are no spaces at the beginning or end of the link, this is the same error I was getting 3 months ago.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-15T13:29:25+00:00

    I'm running Windows version 1809.  I don't use the Planner app, just the web version.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-01-15T16:04:17+00:00

    Ran, this is not working. It isn't parsing the URL correctly. When you copy from OneNote 2016, OneNote gives you two URLs at the same time and it is on two rows.

    https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=677C55B0601B8517%2166245&id=documents&wd=target%28Inbox.one%7C6458FF37-5C6C-7445-B468-11C74D2F77D7%2FSong%7C4A02E6C4-3273-5841-9DB4-B24A41C9CB99%2F%29

    onenote:https://d.docs.live.net/677c55b0601b8517/Ed's%20Personal%20O365/Inbox.one#Song%20&section-id={6458FF37-5C6C-7445-B468-11C74D2F77D7}&page-id={4A02E6C4-3273-5841-9DB4-B24A41C9CB99}&end

    The first URL starts with the HTTPS:// url, and the second starts with onenote:https://

    Normally the app you are pasting in only accepts one URL and discards the other. So if I paste this into Excel, it only accepted the https:// link and discarded the onenote: link.

    If I paste it in OneNote, it only accpts the onenote: link and discards the HTTPS:// link.

    If I paste it in Planner, it accepts both links and then says it isn't a valid link. Well of course it isn't. It is two links and it should not accept the onenote: link.

    The only fix is to paste the links into notepad first, delete the onenote: row, then paste just the https: link.

    Note that this used to work before this thread got started. I've been pasting OneNote links into Planner since it was in beta in 2016 I think, at least when it started accepting links. But whatever changed in Q3 or so of 2018 it quit looking at what was getting pasted in and just accepted the whole thing from OneNote.

    I have tried this with two different Office 365 tenants and both Planners say it is an invalid URL.

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