'Notes' field is single line only in AIO 11.4.0 Contacts

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      hello, after upgrading via the gui to the latest version, the Notes field in Contacts has collapsed to one line only ie cannot be resized, and the line returns are missing ie words from one line are merging with words from the next line without even a space.
      This problem is only with entries that were imported via a csv file
      New entries created after Nextcloud was setup do not have a problem.
      Any ideas please?
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Chatgpt advised:

  • The Notes field content (with \n) was stored literally as a flat string — not interpreted as rich text with line breaks.
  • As a result, the Contacts UI disables multi-line editing (because it thinks it’s a single-line string).
  • This likely explains the “collapsed” input field and inability to press Enter.
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Please check bug report: Unable to resize Notes Field · Issue #4605 · nextcloud/contacts · GitHub

And - if possible - add your comment to the issue, so that the Nextcloud developers get proper feedback.

It’s really an annoying bug for me, since I use the notes fields very often adding several information of my contacts.

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will do
but after repeated attempts to uncorrupt the information stored in ‘Notes’ I’ve given up on nextcloud
i was only needing it for the contacts database and for less than one hours effort, chatgpt has created a python based database that is much easier to use
I was able (again with ChatGPT’s help) to extract the information in Notes (& the other ‘contacts’ fields) to a readable csv file, which I imported in the ChatGPT python database

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Updated my bug report:

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See Notes field needs to be manually resized · Issue #4614 · nextcloud/contacts · GitHub also
and https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts/issues/4613

What makes things worse is how can I go back as I need this functionality. The description here Manual installation of Apps - #6 by Juergen_Jatzkowski does not work anymore and automatically the buggy 7.2.5 is installed again.

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I would like to confirm that I have exactly the same problem:

The note field is causing problems. For some entries, the note field remains a single line. There is no “grabber” to enlarge the note field.

Strangely enough, this is not the case with every note field. Some have a “grabber” to enlarge the field, but many do not.

I hope this can be fixed quickly, because it’s no longer usable (I have many entries with the note field activated).

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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