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.

[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

[thejeswarareddy_r]

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

[Dave Liao]

@thejeswarareddy_r - 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.