Attachments via custom field

[Eran Roiter]

Hey all,

I want to find a way for adding pictures in my Jira, and not in the comment / Attachments.

For example, the marketing team, want to add 7 pictures and choose only one of them.

I would like to have a custom field or something like this, where i can add the final picture that the team selected, any idea's how i can do that?

Thanks! 

[Valerie Knapp · Accepted solution]

Hi @Eran Roiter , thanks for your post.

It's not possible to create a custom field of type attachment. The workaround I would suggest would be to create a custom field of URL field and link to a folder where the files are. I know this isn't ideal but I don't know of another way around this.

Happy to be wrong if someone else has a suggestion.

Cheers

[Dick · Accepted solution]

Hi @Eran Roiter 

Why not make a small web-page with the (numbered) pictures and use the issuecollector function of Jira to have your people vote for the number (dropdown Jira custom field)???

You get your answers convenient together, nobody can sneak in a double entry, pure joy!

Kind regards,

Dick

[Mike Maurer · Accepted solution]

Hi @Eran Roiter ,

you could create a Custom field that is called e .g. Chosen picture and is field type 'Paragraph' (the same as for Description).

In this field you can reference and display the chosen single picture.

Kind regards

Mike

[Michał Krysiuk - Terano Apps]

Note: I'm aware this thread is more than six months old (per the Community Guidelines on necroposting) — I'm deliberately replying anyway, because the technical situation has changed since the last answers were written: Forge Object Storage is now generally available in production, which finally makes real attachment custom fields possible on Jira Cloud. I wanted anyone landing on this thread from search to have the current answer.

Hi @Eran Roiter, 

To answer your original question directly: Jira Cloud still has no native custom field of type "attachment". The system Attachments field is the only built-in place for files, and Atlassian has closed the underlying feature request (JRACLOUD-4925) as Won't Fix — so this is not coming natively. The workarounds suggested above (a URL field pointing to an external folder, or pasting the image into a Paragraph field) were the honest state of the art at the time, but they don't give you a real, separate file field. Today the only way to get one is a Marketplace app.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer of File Field by Terano Apps, a recently released app that adds exactly this — a file upload custom field for Jira and Jira Service Management Cloud. For your marketing-team scenario, you would create a dedicated field (e.g. "Final picture") and upload the selected image directly into that field, keeping it cleanly separated from the 7 candidate pictures sitting in the general Attachments section. Files are stored via Atlassian's Forge platform, so they stay within your Jira Cloud instance.

You can find it here: File Field – Atlassian Marketplace

Happy to answer any questions here.

Michał Krysiuk – Terano Apps

[David Berclaz _Apwide_]

Note: I am necroposting this thread which is more than six months old (Community Guidelines), because the Atlassian Community should be aware of those new attachment custom fields soon available for Jira Cloud.

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Hi @Eran Roiter

I'm the product manager of the File Field App, allowing users to create attachment custom fields and upload one or several files in each field. You can even define restriction on file types and/or size.

File Field for Jira Cloud runs on Atlassian, with files stored securely on your Jira instance.

Let me know if you need more information or a demo.

Have a nice day,

David