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I dont see the need to change this to a wyswiyg editor. As far as I can see this is an internal note only and is never displayed on the frontend so there is no need for formatting.

@brianteeman for my needs, an example could be where a client needs to show additional images/info together with the banner image in the ouput from the module, so I would use this field to do so in an override for the module - I could do that with the textarea as well, but the client can't read/code HTML so they would not know how to edit the content. I am sure there is other ways of doing this, but this seemed to be a small change that would give a bit more usefull possibilities.

AFAIK description is not used anywhere (frontend or backend). It's only shown in the edit form. So this change could be a way to reuse it. We cannot add description to the current views, etc. for B/C reasons but I think changing the field type is ok.

Nowadays it's quite normal having a banner with some kind of text shown there. If this allows to use it on overrides is ok for me.

filter="JComponentHelper::filterText"

Also, not sure we need the Pagebreak and ReadMore buttons

buttons="true"
            hide="readmore,pagebreak"

I have tested this item unsuccessfully on d27f012

The wysiwyg editor is loading but so are the pagebreak and readmore buttons

@brianteeman

Looks like the issue with hide buttons is not limited to this field.
I see it also for category.

Another regression I'm afraid...
Posted here: #8712

We now have a solution for the buttons

Please test and confirm https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/8716

We could then confirm and RTC this one

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CC: @brianteeman

@brianteeman after applying #8716 it now hides the buttons. So to test this: Apply patch #8716 and #8704

I have tested this item successfully on db88d66

After applying #8716 this works

I have tested this item successfully on db88d66

RTC