Preview Panels will soon replace the detail view in Jira’s Global Search and List views

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Hello Atlassian Community 👋 

We’re excited to announce a more convenient and efficient experience to preview your work in Jira.

A new preview panel experience is coming to Jira’s global search and List views that will replace the detail view.

⏱️ A more efficient way to preview work quickly

Previewing work and related context is slow and disruptive today, forcing you to bounce between full-screen views or open multiple new tabs just to gather the information you need.

Preview panels in the List will cut that friction by letting you open work items and related content inline to quickly scan details, read linked Confluence pages, and take action without ever losing your place in the List view.

By keeping you in context while you review and act on work, we’ll make it easier to understand dependencies, reduce tab overload, and speed up everyday workflows.

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✨ What’s changing

Detail view is going away

When using Jira’s global search or List view, you could toggle between the List and detail view.

                                                         

The detail view let you quickly preview work by opening the selected item on the right-hand side. You could jump into the detail view to see more information about a work item, then switch back to the List to continue browsing other results.

The new default will be the preview panel experience

The new preview panel will make it easier to preview work directly from the List and Global Search views, without relying on the old detail view.

You’ll be able to quickly scan all the work items that match your filter or apply sorting, and then select an item to open a side panel. The panel will be resizable, or viewable in a full-screen view when deeper focus is needed.

The preview panel will also support previewing Confluence pages, Projects, and Goals, reducing the need to constantly open and manage new browser tabs.

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💬 We’d love to hear from you

We’re excited to hear what you think of the new preview panel experience, or how you’d like it to shape the future of the List view and Jira.

Drop your feedback below or book a time to chat with the team 🗓️.

[Yatish Madhav]

Thanks @Amanda Sacks - looking forward to how this pans out.

Quick question - would the URL bar change if an item is open in the panel? Currently, the URL bar shows something like this if i open an item from a filter:

https://abc.atlassian.net/issues?filter=12345&selectedIssue=ABCDE-123

Once the context in the preview panel goes live showing issues and Confluence pages, etc, it would be nice to be able to send links like this so people see exactly what we see.

Thanks, Yatish

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Expected update, I would say 🙂

I have a question about this:

...The panel will be resizable...

Will the new width stay the same each time you open a new preview after you resize it? I'm hoping you're storing this info in user profile properties so it doesn't open at the default width every time.

[Julia Foden]

Hi @Amanda Sacks 

Can you include a screenshot of how it will look in the Issue Navigator / 'Work item search'?

And ditto @Yatish Madhav 's question about the URL. I've seen many people sending around links like the one Yatish mentioned to reference a particular work item. So we need to know that the URL bar when the preview panel is open will still reference that work item.

Thanks

[Caroline_Muon]

Hello @Amanda Sacks 

Can you confirm when this feature will be available in our environments ?

Thank you

[James Rickards _SN_]

This is a welcome change. I never use this detailed view from within search/list. When I'm searching/listing I'm looking at the work at a planning level and scanning for discrepancies and relationships. That detailed view hiding the columns hindered that objective.

RE: URL Deep Links

Keeping a consistent URL, that's important. One of the core value propositions of Jira, as it is easy to be send a links to collogues that when used, mean they see exactly what I had open.  When I'm forced to use other tools that don't have this (looking at you ServiceNow), and I need to waste time writing out a description of steps to get to the same view, I immediately feel rage.

Feedback from using this preview view.

I have a habit of `ctrl+click` (or middle mouse button) to cherry pick a batch of work item into new tabs. I do this as a way of planning out work for the hour/day. I then step through each tab, execute the task, then `ctrl+tab` to get to the next tab, and do what I need to do there. This new view makes that way of working harder as I found that the preview would pops up, rather than opening a new tab, but with the new inline editing in search/list view, and bulk change being more user friendly, I've less need to do this. It'll force focus, but multi taskers will hate this.

[Amanda Sacks]

👋 Hey everyone, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback and questions. I'm here with the answers! 

Will the URL reflect that the work item is opened in a preview panel?
Yes. The "&selectedIssue={issueKey}" query parameter will be added to the url. The people you share the URL link with will be able to see what you see. 

Will the preview panel will retain the width it was set to?
Yes. The width will be retained when you open a new issue, and also when you navigate away from the List view and come back to it.

Will ctrl+click still open the work items in a new tab?
Yes, if you click on the issue key (ABCDE-123). The intention of the preview panel is to let you open your work items and take action without ever losing your place in the List view, on top of still being able to multi-task across work items using your current workflow. 

When will preview panels be available?
By the end of Australian FY26 (but we're pushing for sooner).

How will preview panels look in the Issue Navigator / 'Work item search'?

Thanks again, everyone! I'll provide another update closer to the feature release. Until then, please feel free to continue to reach out.