Bulk Change Description Field

[Elif Alverson]

Hello, 

I am trying to Bulk Change the Description of 90 tickets however " Description" field does not show up at "Choose Operation : Edit Issues" . I checked the Edit Screen Scheme and it is there. What am I missing? 

For some reason all the custom fields which are not being used by this project show up.  

Thanks!

Elif

[Mohamed Riza · Accepted solution]

Hi @Elif Alverson

It is currently not possible to bulk edit the description of issues in Jira. The following feature request was created to address this: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-67821. You may vote on the feature request. 

[Elif Alverson]

Thank you.

[Aaron-Lyonel Fritschi]

When will this finally be possible if I may ask? It seems like an important bulk change feature to me and of course I'd need it right now :D 

[Dave Liao]

@Aaron-Lyonel Fritschi - I'd (also?) chime in on the ticket linked above, especially if Mohamed turned off notifications on this thread.

[Vincent de Regnauld de Bellescize]

For this matter you can:

1. Create a screen with the description field on it
2. Edit your Workflow
3. Add a transition with:
   1. From status: Any status
   2. To Status: Itself
   3. Name: "Bulk Edit Description"
   4. Screen: *Name_of_your_screen* (created in step 1)
4. Optional: Add some Conditions on the new transition for security purpose (ex: project role Admin)
5. Save workflow
6. Test it on several issue in different status (status should stay the same), before bulk edit
7. Once 6 validated, make your bulk edit with "transition Issues" and "Bulk Edit Description"
8. Don't forget to untick "Send mail for this update" (or not, as you wish)

Hope this help.

[Dave Liao]

@Vincent de Regnauld de Bellescize - ooh, I love the ingeniousness of this workaround!

[Dan Scheib · Accepted solution]

Use Project Automation. Hopefully this is part of the standard Jira service. 

[sheeba_david]

Thanks. This solved our problem.

[David Phelps]

The two complex solutions provided unfortunately require global admin permissions, while editing the Description field should not. 

[Dave Liao]

One workaround is to use the CSV bulk import to mass define Description across many issues.

There's at least two disadvantages to this approach:

• you need Global Admin Permissions to perform this import
• this only mass sets the Description value, not append

[Deleted user]

Can we make a bulk change to Summary field Empty as well

[Dave Liao]

@[deleted] - the Summary field can't be blank.

However, if you want to bulk edit a bunch of issues to have the same Summary, you can use the CSV method to do this.

[Dave Liao]

Vincent suggested an ingenious workaround that would work for Summary fields too! (It's on this page.)