Inline editing working on some but not all projects

Question

I'm stuck. I have a custom field that is a single select. In Prj #1m=, I can edit this field inline without any trouble. When I hover over the field it says "Click to edit" and if I click I get the list values to select from. In Prj #2, if I hover over the field it says "Edit in dialog". How do I change it back to allow inline editing? I have the field in my screens; Create, edit and View. Some other fields in Prj #2 allow inline editing but this one particular field. I don't know how it got changed for this Prj #2 but I want to change it back.

We are using Jira v8.10

James Travers_1hwm8m · Answer

@Terry Beavers this just saved my bacon ;-p. thank you!

My workaround, which worked on Server 9.17, was to move the javascript to another field that I know will always be present for the project.  It can still reference the Summary field but doesn't cause the break in inline editing.

Terry Beavers_9om6dl · Answer

I started experiencing the same issue recently with just one project and what I found was the cause was I added a snippet of JavaScript to the Summary field's description in my field configuration schemes for the project having the issue, which is used to auto-populate the Summary field.  Well apparently Jira doesn't like that because once I removed the code from the Summary field description in the field configuration scheme, VOILA! my inline editing starting working again.

So now I am back to the drawing board on how to auto-populate the Summary field because it is a required field when creating any Jira issue, so you can't even use a post-function to auto-populate the Summary field.

Jeff Foege_v27jik · Answer

So what would cause a field to "Edit in dialog" only if its in the Edit & View screens of the issue type? Other custom fields in the same project can edit inline. I've been searching and searching but so far no resolution.

~j