Markdown and Rich Text Support in Custom Fields for Company-Managed Projects

WH Louis Bouchard
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September 13, 2021

This article on the list of custom field types suggests that custom field of type Paragraph would support markdown and rich text capabilities.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/custom-fields-types-in-company-managed-projects-972327807.html 

However, all custom fields created with that configuration don't appear to enable that. What am I missing? Here's the editor that shows up with a custom field of type paragraph:

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Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__
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September 13, 2021

Hi @WH Louis Bouchard you need to set field's renderer to Wiki style renderer. You need to go to your Project's settings -> Fields -> Actions (top right corner) -> Edit Fields -> search your field -> Renderers

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WH Louis Bouchard
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September 13, 2021

Ah! Thank you SO much Martin!

Just a small thing on your action path, for me it was Project settings -> Fields -> Actions (top right corner) -> Edit Fields -> (select field configuration) -> search for my field -> Renderers. 

But I'm all set now, thanks again!

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Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__
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September 13, 2021

Cool,happy to help🙂

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Kathy Hart
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January 28, 2022

This was so helpful! I was wondering why none of my paragraph fields were showing the editor. Because they started out Multi-line text fields when they were created and they are retaining that rendering. 

Makes sense now. 

Thanks

However, so many fields in so many schemes to fix. 

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Georjo Johan
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March 6, 2022

Hi, is the menu options to enable the functionality in custom fields same in Jira cloud instances also?. I cant find a way to enable wiki style renderer in custom fields. I cant see the Actions and Renderer options in custom fields settings menus.

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Dave Liao
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June 8, 2022

@Georjo Johan - hopefully you figured this out?

I just checked in one of my Cloud instances, and I can modify the Renderer for a given custom field by modifying a field configuration.

Cheri Hansen
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June 20, 2022

Thank you so much for the help!  My steps were just a bit different, but with your instructions it was quite easy to figure out.   

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Albert Chirighin
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March 15, 2024

Thank You @Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__ , worked for me as well.  Just had to click the Update twice.

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