History view - contributors amendment only

Question

When viewing an item, the history shows the update the user has made.  But this update saves all data entered into a field.  Is there a way to see what the person amending the item contributed?  Similar to githubs red/green colour coded areas on a commit.

Thanks,

Petter Gonçalves · Answer

Hello @Dominic Took

Unfortunately, Jira Cloud can't be configured in a way to highlight what was changed by color in the issue history. There is a free app that provides you with this functionality (Improved Diff for Jira), however, it's only available for Jira Server application.

We agree with you that this is a useful feature when analyzing the log of a field with many characters, so we created the following feature request to implement this functionality in Jira Cloud:

See side-by-side highlighted diffs of issue text-fields in history as if they were source-code

Feel free to vote and watch the suggestion to increase its priority and also receive notifications about any updates.

Thanks,

Petter Gonçalves - Community Support

Zoryana Bohutska _SaaSJet_ · Answer

Perhaps yes. It all depends on your Jira permission.

Dominic Took · Answer

Thanks @Zoryana Bohutska _SaaSJet_

Does this need to be added by the Jira Admin and setup by them to work?  Thanks.