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**Category:** API & Developers\
**Created:** [22 October 2018 10:22 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rich-text-fields-are-not-sent-in-responses-html-text-html-notes/33650 "2018-10-22T10:22:38Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Andrej\_Kmetik](https://forum.asana.com/u/Andrej_Kmetik)\
**Post date:** [22 October 2018 10:22 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rich-text-fields-are-not-sent-in-responses-html-text-html-notes/33650/1 "2018-10-22T10:22:38Z")
It’s October 22nd and we are still not receiving html\_text/html\_notes fields in our API requests, with or without Asana-Enable: new\_rich\_text (afaik this is no longer necessary after October 15th)
What could be the cause?
We tried Tasks → html\_notes & Stories → html\_text - fields are not present in the reponse.
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**Author:**  [@Bastien\_Siebman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bastien_Siebman)\
**Post date:** [22 October 2018 11:07 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rich-text-fields-are-not-sent-in-responses-html-text-html-notes/33650/2 "2018-10-22T11:07:52Z")
You might need to specify the fields in the `opt_fields` option.
e.g.: `GET /projects/612875373556956/tasks?opt_fields=html_notes&limit=10`
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**Author:**  [@Andrej\_Kmetik](https://forum.asana.com/u/Andrej_Kmetik)\
**Post date:** [22 October 2018 11:22 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rich-text-fields-are-not-sent-in-responses-html-text-html-notes/33650/3 "2018-10-22T11:22:17Z")
Thanks a lot, that did the trick.
It would be to have this in documentation since this is, imho, very counter-intuitive.
Also when I use “/stories/story-id?opt\_fields=html\_text”, I only receive html\_text and no other fields. It would be nice to send it by default instead of ‘text’ field - will this be the behavior after Dec-17-2018? ([Build an app with Asana](https://asana.com/developers/documentation/getting-started/deprecations))
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**Author:**  [@Joe\_Trollo](https://forum.asana.com/u/Joe_Trollo)\
**Post date:** [23 October 2018 00:19 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rich-text-fields-are-not-sent-in-responses-html-text-html-notes/33650/4 "2018-10-23T00:19:30Z")
Yes, @Bastien_Siebman is correct: rich text is not returned by default from the API. The header only controls whether it’s in the new or old format, not whether it’s present in the API response. We can, however, update our docs to make this clearer!
We don’t plan on including rich text fields by default because we want to encourage developers to ask _only_ for the data they need. In particular, rich text can be expensive because of the computation required to parse our internal text format, resolve all the links to Asana objects, generate the metadata, and assemble it all into an HTML string.
Also, the behavior you observed with `opt_fields` is correct—when using the [output options](https://asana.com/developers/documentation/getting-started/input-output-options) you will only receive the data specified by the `opt_fields` parameter.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.asana.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [30 May 2025 18:58 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rich-text-fields-are-not-sent-in-responses-html-text-html-notes/33650/5 "2025-05-30T18:58:11Z")
Closed on 30 May 2025 18:58 UTC