HTML format for personalNotes of contacts

Question

In general, HTML formatted strings can be used when updating the personalNotes of a contact via the Graph API. But there is a problem with URLs.

Example:

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contacts     
{
    "givenName": "Test",
    "surname": "Test",
    "personalNotes": "External link to the contact <a href="some url">contact</a>"
}

The result is, that the link is not clickable and the HTML formating is lost.

Any suggestions on how to solve this?

Answer 1

Hi @Ulrich Winter ,

Thanks for reaching out!

It is an expected behavior that the hyperlink/rich text/formatted text is not supported in Contact Notes since the type of this field is string. You can verify the same from UI by creating a new contact in OWA and try to add a hyperlink in contact notes field, it will soon be converted into a plain text. 

Hope this helps.

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