Status button has been moved to Description section

[Daria Bondarchuk]

The status button for my Jira project was moved to the Description section of the issue, causing discomfort and disruption for my teammates. This change occurred a couple of months ago, and at the time, it was possible to revert it through an issue layout change. However, I can no longer see such an option. Is it possible to move the field back to context section?

[Shalini Pradhan]

Hello everyone,

Good day! You can watch and vote this feature request: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-96142

Thank you!

[Prachi Bolar]

Hello All

Welcome to community :) 

This is due to the feature as mentioned here : https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Easier-status-updates-for-work-items/ba-p/3068881

•  this is part of an experiment which the dev teams have been rolling out
• Your instance was on of them
• Experiments are noting but small feature changes so as to know if the customers like it or not

As next steps we can do the following

• You can go ahead and create a ticket with Atlassian team here : https://support.atlassian.com/contact/
• They will then reach out to backend team who handles this feature and will check if there is anyway to move the status back to orginial

Thank You,

Prachi

[Karan Sachdev]

Hey @Daria Bondarchuk

This is a new product change, and it will be rolled out to all sites in phases throughout this week and the next week.

We don't have a way to revert this change, but if it breaks any functionality, you may report it via a support ticket.

Thanks!

[Daria Bondarchuk]

Why is it implemented?
It's not that it breaks something; it's just that Status is a part of the ticket context, so it makes more sense to see it in the context section. Also, in the description section, it gets mixed with other fields and is not that visible, making updating status less convenient..

[Karan Sachdev]

Hey Daria, thanks for your feedback. I shared it with the teams internally.

Thanks!

[Tomasz Abram]

Like... WHY change that? :) Now you got to roll up to top after reading comments to change the status. I know that Atlassian usually does not count "optimizing" the interface to make things easier and quicker to operate while introducing changes, but... for <someone powerful> sake - I back in the years I thought software's job is to make life easier for people who do stuff and use it, not harder and slower.

Where is the optimization factor counted into that?

BTW. Will ever Jira pages become cached? Or will we always be forced to wait for work items to load from scratch no matter nothing changed inside?

[Vitali]

@Karan Sachdev This is so inconvenient and uncomfortable. Please provide an option to revert this back.

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Daria Bondarchuk 

On my personal and instances I manage the status option is still on the context section.

Your instance might be in trail, contact Atlassian Support on this and also provide feedbac on not lieing this change.

Also see; Easier-status-updates-for-work-items