How to add a thumbnail of an attached image to a comment

[Dave Calkins]

Recently switched to the "new" JIRA experience in settings.  In the "old" experience, you could attach an image file to a JIRA item and then in a comment there was a drop-down from which you could choose that attached image from a list and it would add a thumbnail entry to the comment text.  The comment would then contain a clickable thumbnail to the attached image.

I can't seem to find where to do this in the new experience.  Anyone know?

[Angélica Luz · Accepted solution]

Hello @Dave Calkins,

Thank you for reaching out to Atlassian Community!

On the new issue view, when uploading a file or image, it will show all types of attachments that you previously uploaded to other Jira tickets or even on Confluence pages of any Atlassian Cloud site. 

On the old editor (Wiki Markup), it was possible to view files that were previously attached to the very same ticket only, but on the new editor (Markdown) it will show files from all tickets.

This is a known issue and you can find more details on the link below:

• When adding a comment and using the files & images icon doesn't browse the attachments of the issue

Please, click on vote and watch to receive updates about the ticket.

Kind regards,
Angélica

[Dave Calkins]

Thanks!  I've voted on that issue.

[Krys Bromek]

To make it worse pasting an image during the edit frequently fails to attach, so separate attaching is necessary, but then its not possible to show in the text  :/ 

[Alex Palma]

Reading this in September 2023, it looks like there is now a GUI way to achieve this:

[David Bakkers]

Hello @Dave Calkins 

When you edit a comment in the new experience, a toolbar will appear at the top of the text area. Click the Files & Images button. The image will be attached to the issue, then be placed in the comment text at the point where you inserted it:

[Dave Calkins]

Thanks for the reply!  This does not address what I'm referring to though.  In my case, I've already attached the image and I simply want to add a thumbnail to the already attached image in a comment.  Using the method you described triggers the file open dialog to upload a new image which isn't what I'm looking for.

[Jörg Wulf]

Hello, i have the same problem as Dave. Ist there any solution right now ?

The only solution ist to switch to the old view.

[Ben Saunders]

Ah thanks for asking here Dave, I'm running into the exact same problem. Issue is that I have teammates adding in images in comments that I'd like to update in the general description, but can't do so with the current view.

[Alfonso Martin]

+1 Same issue

[pavelpigalov]

Come on, still can't figure out how to do what Dave asked above..!

Atlassian, are you serious? The ticket opened back in 2019 and there are over 500 votes for it already. Don't you think this is a simple and basic feature that should be provided out of the box instead of making users to wait several years for it ?

Moreover, I think it was in Jira before, I am pretty sure I was able to do this in some previous issues years ago... :/

[Mike Doolittle]

Here's some documentation but, as you noted @pavelpigalov , it doesn't seem to work anymore: https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=images

[André Matzke]

this embedding of already attached images was in a lot of situations a very very good feature of jira before cloud-jira (at least up to Jira 6.x). From that point of view, Jira is a little bit less useful, than it was before. There is always an understanding amongst professionals if such a huge transition has in the beginning some things missing. But this feature should come back fast. That it is missing is getting more and more annoying.

[Sergi Q]

Same problem here. It's very uncomfortable to work with this new UI. Does anyone know an alternative to Atlassian Jira?

[matthew.laurence]

Yep - Still there does not appear to be any way to do this, and it's even a worse problem in the Description field. I can find NO way to embed a thumbnail of an image into a ticket description.

[Gunnar Hieronymus Hovden]

This

!image.jpg|thumbnail!

still works if you first go to settings (three dots) and choose "See the old view". Once thumbnail is added it will show in "new view" also.

[Ronald Verheul]

It is now may 2024 and still........ the same old Jira crap.

[Matt Powers]

Checking in with my current experience, with Jira cloud 

"version": "1001.0.0-SNAPSHOT",

I can paste an image snapshot in an issue Description or Comment and then use my mouse to drag the sidebar next to the image to size it to a small version.  It works as a thumbnail image.  I didn't know the sidebar dragging was available as a way to get a small-sized thumbnail.

However, I don't see support for doing this for an existing image attachment in the issue.  The closest you can do is "Insert element / Attachments on this issue" and choose the "inline" or "card" format.  Both are very compact, but don't give you the thumbnail experience.

[Jason Liu]

Maybe you can try to switch it to Text, if you have.

[KHaddadi]

I cannot see the Text mode when i am editing and existing comment. It only edits comment in the visual mode, so I am not able to paste a thumbnail image.

[Murali Polimara]

This is still an issue for me. I don't see an option to switch to raw editor mode (Text mode). This was very effectively used in the older version.

Now to paste an image and refer to the same in a comment, we need to explicitly save the image on the laptop (as opposed to getting it from the copied clipboard).