How to update custom field description?

Tsol
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April 11, 2012

Hi everybody,

I have some custom fields and i've tried to edit the description. I've changed the description but the new description is not rendered in the issues related screens.

Any ideas how to do it?

Thanks,

Kostas

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Renjith Pillai
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April 11, 2012

Update your field configuration scheme of your project and put in the description there.

AKASH BHARDWAJ June 19, 2015

Thanks it has helped!!

Philippe-Antoine_Laurence August 31, 2015

Good call!

Jennifer Zou July 27, 2017

Works like a dream!

Patrick October 12, 2017

Hi all I got the same problem, but text doesn´t change according to defined text - any ideas?

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Chrisjir Parkin March 12, 2018

This solved my problem even though I don't have a Field Configuration Scheme for this specific project in which this field is used.  I was able to update the field description under "Field Configurations" by clicking on "Default Field Configuration" and looking for (CTRL-F) the particular field names whose descriptions I needed to change.

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Gregory Hicks March 6, 2019

@Chrisjir Parkinty, I have been racking my brain trying to figure this out and your post saved the day!

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Jensen Jian August 28, 2019

Nice,this is very useful.

Patrick Heidel April 28, 2021

Instead of changing the description within the field configuration scheme, you should be able to delete the description there. After that the translated Description will be refreshed.

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Ibrahim
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November 10, 2014

I've made a feature request to see if we can make this more intuitive within JIRA.

JRA-40782

 

The full documentation on custom field description behavior is found here: Configuring a Custom Field.

Adding a snippet of the documentation here as well.

 

Changing the description of a custom field

 

Not changing the description in a field configuration means that any changes you make to a custom field's description are not seen.

 

JIRA allows you to define a description of a custom field, and if the field configuration descriptions are left empty then the original description text will appear when you create or edit an issue, and as help text in the Issue Navigator. However you can also define different description texts in each field configuration and this will override the original field description text.

 

For example if a custom field "My Field" is defined with a description of "This is my field" and no field configuration changes are made, then the displayed text will be "This is my field" as expected. If field configurations are used and a description "This is my excellent field" is set for the custom field in the field description, then the displayed text will be "This is my excellent field".

 

 

Faisal Shamim May 25, 2020

I can't see the description under field on Issue view screen, I can see it on Edit 

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AKASH BHARDWAJ June 19, 2015

 @Ibrahim Labras : Thanks for the info, I ran into the same issue.

 

 

Thanks,
Akash 

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