Asana added rich text formatting in June 2014 (https://blog.asana.com/2014/06/rich-text/)
How do you get the formatting metadata from the Asana API?
For example, if I fill in a task description with:
some bold text. some italic text
a list
The API returns the following for the note field, which excludes any formatting info:
"notes":"some bold text. some italic text\n\na list\n\nfoo\n\nbar\n\nsublist \na\nb\nc\nbaz"
We do not currently support rich text formatting via the API. However if you're feeling adventurous, we are currently working on this support, and you can try it out by using html_notes (for tasks) and html_text (for stories). You can request them using ?opt_fields=html_notes, for example.
Note however that this is still very experimental/early support. If the parser doesn't like the HTML you post, it just strips everything back to plaintext. So this is really only if you're feeling particularly adventurous - otherwise, I'd wait until we release full-fledged public support for it, with documentation and everything.
Is this still something "experimental"? I didn't want to post an answer but it won't let me comment the existing answer. So far I have found:
Acceptable
<b>
<ul>
<li>
Not acceptable:
<h4>
<p>
<div>
<section>
<br>
Any other suggestions for something to do a linebreak? Back in the day, I was using Wufoo to directly create tasks in Asana and it formatted it with a bold heading and then regular text for each entry data. I am trying to achieve this on my own without going that route because I am also updating a database when I receive the form submission. Any ideas on how to format (only the most basic of formatting)?
