Can I edit issues in list view?

[Ed Landau]

I am running a web-hosted, company-managed kanban project.

I am an admin.   If I list all issues, and have a JQL filter to show all relevant issues, I am able to click on individual issues to edit them, and I am also able to edit the STATUS of issues right from the list view.   I would also like to edit other fields right from the list view.  Is this possible?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

No, it's not possible yet.  Atlassian have an improvement request open for it, which I believe is on the roadmap, and there are some apps that provide it too.

(By the way, Status can be "edited" because it's not really a field, it's a display of where an issue is in the workflow.  What you're actually doing is pushing the issue through a transition to a new status, not editing)

[Ed Landau]

Thank you for saving me the hassle of trying to find a way :).

[Jen Russell]

When will inline editing be available in list view for all fields? 

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Ed Landau

welcome to the community!

You are correct that Jira's default filter view is very limited in terms of inline editing. In native Jira, you can do more inline editing in e.g.

• Jira Work Management's new list view (however it works only for Jira Work Management projects), or
• Advanced Roadmaps (however it may be a bit heavyweight for many use cases, and any changes to your issues need to be explicitly committed in an extra step to be actually applied).

As an alternative, if you are open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, there are options available there. I'll provide more information below.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Hannes

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Just to expand on the last point: My team and I work on an app named JXL for Jira that I think you'd like:

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including support bulk editing via copy/paste, (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

As every JXL sheet is powered by a JQL statement or filter, many of our customers use it successfully as an extension or alternative to Jira's built-in list view.

Any questions just let me know!