How to hide images used in description and comments from attachments

Question

When I want to display images in the description field or in the comments, I use the rich text editor button to upload the image. I do not use a link to the image as I dont want to host the image on a server.

Unfortunately uploading the image automatically turns it into an attachment and it will show under the attachments category. If you embed a couple of images in your description or comments this quickly clutters up the attachment list and you easily miss the actual important attachments.

Is there any way to hide attachments from the attachment list? I want to have images in the description and comments but I dont want them to be attachments.

Charles Bonnet · Answer

I found you can use a regular expression to stop showing the PNG files that are images posted to the page.

^(?!.*\.jpg$).*$

This works for me to use the attachments to highlight the PDF's attached but to hide the images I used as examples for the page body.

I also add a note below the attachments macro to say that this attachments is filtered.

Marc -Devoteam- · Answer

Hi @Obenaus, Karsten

This is intended behaviour.

Any image uploaded in a rich text field or comment will be listed in the attachment section.

Gor Greyan · Answer

Hi @Obenaus, Karsten

I think Jira automatically treats any image uploaded through the rich text editor (in a description or comment) as an attachment. There isn’t a built-in option to hide these inline images from the attachments section; Jira always lists every uploaded file there, even if it’s only used for display in text.

I think you should see any add-on in the marketplace or use links instead of inline images.