Can you add attachments to individual comments in JIRA issues?

[Steve Perras]

I want to be able to add attachments to individual issues in JIRA.

[Dimitrios M]

It was (and is) very frustrating for all of us to find out that you cannot attach your files to an individual comment. The feature of our work is to have sometimes more than 50 screenshots and files in an issue. For god's sake, how should anyone find its way easily trough the jungle of attachments?

This such simple feature is a big minus to JIRA!

At least: while uploading files/images.. relate them automatically to the comment. What's the problem?

To answer your title, comments, no, as comments belong to issues, alongside attachments.

To answer the body of the question, yes, you attach files to individual issues in Jira.

Then give me your solution how you would deal with 50+ attachments when you need to open them while browsing comments?

[Deleted user]

I agree.  We have been on Jira for 2 weeks and already I am seeing tasks with a dozen attachments all grouped together.  We typically add attachments throughout the progress of the issue, so after a while it becomes a very confusing mess to sort through and figure out which attachment goes with which comments.

[Carl Myers]

Although, if you set your "comment renderer" to render wiki markup, and attach a file "example.jpg", then put "!example.jpg!" in your comment, jira will render the image inline. So while the attachment is "on the issue", it renders it inline in the comment. does that help?

[Andy Brook [Plugin People]]

For email interactions: Related to inline images, JEMH 1.3.28 can now automatically inject relavent wiki markup for inline rendering of attached images.

If you just want a way to know what files were uploaded against a comment, JEMH can also provide links to non-image files as a comment 'footer'.

[Alex Taylor]

What we did was to write a custom renderer for Comment fields:

public class AttachmentCommentRenderer extends AtlassianWikiRenderer
{
    private final CommentManager commentManager = ComponentManager.getInstance().getCommentManager();

    public AttachmentCommentRenderer(EventPublisher eventPublisher)
    {
        super(eventPublisher);
    }
    
    public String getRendererType() 
    {
        return "attachment-comment-renderer";
    }
    
    public String render(String s, IssueRenderContext issueRenderContext)
    {
        s += getAttachmentLinks(issueRenderContext.getIssue(), s);
        
        return super.render(s, issueRenderContext);
    }
    
    private String getAttachmentLinks(Issue issue, String comment)
    {
        Collection<Attachment> attachments = issue.getAttachments();
        List<Comment>          comments    = commentManager.getComments(issue);
        
        for (Comment c : comments)
        {
            if (c.getBody().equals(comment))
            {
                Date created = c.getCreated();
            
                for (Attachment attachment : attachments)
                {
                    if (created.equals(attachment.getCreated()))
                        return "\r\n\r\n[^" + attachment.getFilename() + "]";
                }
            }
        }
        
        return "";
    }
}

This adds a little link for each attachment to the bottom of the comment that accompanied it. As it's not added to the content of the comment-field, it cannot be modified or deleted by a user, and if the attachment is removed the link will disappear as well.

[Peter Olson]

Does this work for Jira 5.1? I'm new to Jira (came from redmine), how does one add this? Based on: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Renderers it looks like I need create a plugin...

[Alex Taylor]

We haven't upgraded to 5.1 yet so I don't know for certain, but I wouldn't expect a problem.

[Peter Olson]

Could someone point me in the rigth direction on how to get this going?

[Kathleen Jacobs]

ever figure this out? Do you need to create a plugin to add this?

[Nick]

Anyone use this actively and know how to install it?

[Gareth Daniel Smith]

This missing feature regularly drives me nuts.

[Anne Ward]

I vote to have the ability to simply drag and drop attachments to INDIVIDUAL comments as a much needed feature in the future release. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

To answer your title, comments, no, as comments belong to issues, alongside attachments.

To answer the body of the question, yes, you attach files to individual issues in Jira.

[Steve Perras]

Thanks Nic. I meant to say comment in the body and not issues.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I thought it might be :-) Attachment handling in Jira is pretty basic, you add them to an issue, that's about it. When we've got complex lists of documents, we put the doc name in the comment, or more normally, write it up in Confluence instead.

[Emmanuel Mouille]

This page here says that attaching images to the comment section of the issue isn't doable

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/83553

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It hasn't changed since the original answer

[Gareth Daniel Smith]

@Emmanuel Mouille - I suppose this is just an issue with the configuration of my particular JIRA instance, then...

[Emmanuel Mouille]

I am guessing so. I only installed JIRA on my computer today to evaluate it and have not figured it out yet. I read that you have to enable attachements in the project permissions: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Managing+Project+Permissions Gareth, would you like to colaborate on how to get this working? Transition to Skype to chat about it?

[Emmanuel Mouille]

Copy pasting the image below inline:

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Nice! but how to configure JIRA instance to do this?

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[meramo]

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[midnightcodr]

Adding attachments to individual comment is a very basic feature, and it's quite common, just look at github, gitlab or even PHPBB.

[Ernst Breternitz]

I am also VERY interested in adding attachments to a JIRA comment.
Need ability to include (not inline) regular text files, pictures, Word docs, PDF, etc.