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How to easily copy a JIRA issue title?

Jonah Petri

Hello,

When committing a fix, we always include the issue number and current title in our commit comments. It's really bloody hard to get that text in JIRA from the issue detail screen - the title itself is an HTML edit box, and the ID # for the issue is buried in the title bar and elsewhere on the screen in fairly inaccessible ways.

Is there any easy way to get the issue ID and title into my pasteboard?

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Chaithra N

hi,

Use filter result on to your dashboard with all the required columns.

Refer - https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Adding+the+Filter+Results+Gadget for more details.

Jonah Petri

Thanks, but I want to get to the bug ID and title from the issue detail screen, not from my dashboard, so this doesn't really help me, AFAICT.

Henning Tietgens

If you click between the project name and the issue key (there is no link active on this position) and hold the left mouse button, you can easily drag behind the summary underneath the key to mark key and summary in one step and past this into your comment. You only have to remove the line break after pasting.

Henning

AmandaA

Hi Jonah,

For the issue summary/title and Issue key/ID, if you click on your mouse and hold it during srolling up or down, it will not direct you to the edit mode. you can try to put your mouse console at the end of the title on issue details page, click on it but hold your finger on and scroll left and up until include all the title and issue key. Then you can make a copy at on time.

Regards

Jonah Petri

That is what I've resorted to, but it grabs the "Display" menu title as well when I select it (at least in firefox).

Jonah Petri

That doesn't work, as it also selects the "Display" menu title.

Henning Tietgens

In Firefox I have an additional line feed in the copied text but nothing else. Maybe this is different on your version of JIRA. Sorry.

Jonah Petri

The answer is "you can't".

Ivan Onushkin

you can get this string from browser tab title

Chrome

https://code.google.com/p/copy-url-and-title/wiki/Howto

Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-title/

Infont X LLC

i added the following code snippet to "announcement banner" /secure/admin/EditAnnouncementBanner.jspa which allows HTML and it added Text to Ticket number in Single Issue view, Search and Agile Board

tested in Chrome only but pretty sure FF will work or easy to adjust

&lt;script&gt;
setInterval(function() {
	var custAttr = 'data-issue-text-updated'
	var issueKeyElement = document.getElementById("key-val");
	if (issueKeyElement &amp;&amp; document.getElementById("summary-val")) {
		if (issueKeyElement[custAttr] == "true") {
			return;
		}
		issueKeyElement.innerHTML += " - " + document.getElementById("summary-val").innerText
		issueKeyElement[custAttr] = 'true';
	}
	//* Agile Board
	var issueKeyElement = document.querySelector("a[title='View this issue in JIRA']");
	if (issueKeyElement &amp;&amp; document.querySelector("dd[data-field-id='summary']")) {
		if (issueKeyElement[custAttr] == "true") {
			return;
		}
		issueKeyElement.innerHTML += " - " + document.querySelector("dd[data-field-id='summary']").innerText
		issueKeyElement[custAttr] = 'true';
	}
}, 1000)
&lt;/script&gt;

maxday

I developed an Chrome Extension for this exact purpose.

Download the extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jira-issue-easycopy/phkppaelmhlpnoolfdpfklchkmmncmlo

Go to your issue, press the extension button and you will have the issue number + issue description directly into your clipboard smile

If you are interested, you can browse the open source code here : https://github.com/maxday/jira-issue-easyCopy

Fabrice Bauzac

It does work for me!

Fabrice Bauzac

The first link seems to not work anymore.

However there seem to be several solutions for Chrome:

Tab Copy
and maybe also Tiny Copy Link

Jonah Petri_cidj0x

4 years later, and thousands of bug titles manually selected and then manually formatted, you STILL can't do this.

Atlassian just redid the entire UI. But they didn't change this. I guess internally they like manually selecting and copy/pasting/formatting text? I'm super frustrated.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

It's because they don't expect it to be used like that. If you're pasting it into places, you should be looking at better integration between tools, not copying and pasting.

David C_ezl36l

I wish I could downvote as very unhelpful @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- for "you should be looking at better integration between tools". So if my company hasn't adopted a full Atlassian stack, I'm doing it wrong?

unknown

Awesome! Thanks a lot!

ryanbu

The Chrome Extension link leads to a 404 now. Is this in the store under another name?

Roland Siegel

@ryanbu

Use this: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217803/copy-to-clipboard?hosting=server&tab=overview

Luke_r4h7fb

Works in Chrome on issue details screen:

1. select two lines: ID + title
2. click RMB(right mouse button) and choose: Search Google for "..."
3. new tab will be opened with google search and our two inconvenient lines will be already joined and prepared to be copied further

It might not be the most elegant way, but at least you don't have to install any additional tools to use it:)

David Muller_vmnfra

I've also wanted a way to quickly copy the issue number and current title to my clipboard. It's especially helpful, for example, to the issue number + current title to paste into a commit message.

I created a Jira Cloud App that allows you to copy a Jira Issue key and title to your clipboard by clicking a button that appears on the issue view. The app also allows you to define custom templates so you can personalize the text you want copied e.g. something like <issue-number>: <issue-title>`

Here's a screenshot showing how the app renders on an Issue view. In this case there are two custom buttons that run templates you can define to determine the copied text:

You have access issue fields (like title, number, project key, assignee, creator, description, etc.), and can run modifiers like lowercase, remove whitespace, etc. to get the exact text you'd like onto your clipboard for your branch name, commit message, etc.

The app is called Copy Issue Link and you can find it here: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1225783

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