Am I able to highlight some comments in Jira?

Question

Hi,

I would like to be able to add some comments and highlight them somehow. Basically, I would like to be able to label "important" comments in a Jira issue.

Ideally, I am able to find the highlighted comments easily by filtering.

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My overall goal would be even different: get an overview of all highlighted comments in Confluence, but that would be on a next level.

Any idea if I am able to implement that somehow?

Markus

Iago Docando · Answer

I don't think you can highlight each individual commentary you might want to highlight using custom fields.

I mean... you could have a custom field (acting as a flag) telling you if there are interesting commentaries within an issue (this would be the easiest).

You could even have a custom field storing the ID (or IDs) of the target commentaries but if you're to pursue this route I don't see it much simpler than the properties approach.

Anyways... whatever suits your needs will be OK :)

Markus Raab_lu5ctj · Answer

Thanks for the input - really interesting. I think for our use case it's an overkill and we'll try to get it done with a custom field.

Iago Docando · Answer

You have to use comment properties. Take a look at

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-comment-properties/#api-group-issue-comment-properties