How to easily copy a JIRA issue title?

[Jonah Petri]

Hello,

When committing a fix, we always include the issue number and current title in our commit comments. It's really bloody hard to get that text in JIRA from the issue detail screen - the title itself is an HTML edit box, and the ID # for the issue is buried in the title bar and elsewhere on the screen in fairly inaccessible ways.

Is there any easy way to get the issue ID and title into my pasteboard?

[maxday]

I developed an Chrome Extension for this exact purpose.

Download the extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jira-issue-easycopy/phkppaelmhlpnoolfdpfklchkmmncmlo

Go to your issue, press the extension button and you will have the issue number + issue description directly into your clipboard 

If you are interested, you can browse the open source code here : https://github.com/maxday/jira-issue-easyCopy

[Deleted user]

Awesome! Thanks a lot!

[ryanbu]

The Chrome Extension link leads to a 404 now. Is this in the store under another name?

[Roland Siegel]

@ryanbu 

Use this: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217803/copy-to-clipboard?hosting=server&tab=overview

[Alexander Bondarchuk]

@Roland Siegel can I put URL + summary into clipboard? 

[Roland Siegel]

@Alexander Bondarchuk 

of course. you can freely configure what the button shall copy to the clipboard.

When editing the customfield the following "Copy Pattern" will copy "URL + summary" to the clipboard:

http(s)://YOUR_JIRA_DOMAIN/browse/$issue.key + $issue.summary

[Alexander Bondarchuk]

@Roland Siegel since I don't have permissions on the Jira server I've just added an extension to my browser:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy-url-from-tabinfocopy/kplmddgdeigcadlfohcelfefiinfghpi

[alex_intechnic]

@Roland Siegel , I'm using JIRA 8.8.x and add-on , but https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217803/copy-to-clipboard?hosting=server&tab=overview is compatible with JIRA 8.6.x only. Because of that I can't install it from JIRA marketplace on https://my-jira-domain.com /plugins/servlet/upm/marketplace/search?q=Copy%20To%20Clipboard url.

[Petr Bodnár]

It looks like this topic is still actual, so here are my two cents... Personally, I'm using my own Greasemonkey user script: look for "JIRA_copy.user.js" at https://github.com/pbodnar/gm-scripts. I'm not sure if it's compatible with the latest Jira version. Anyway, you can change script's keyboard shortcuts or what parts of page it extracts quite easily, if you are into JavaScript - just modify the source code a little bit.

And of course, it is also possible to wrap the JS into a Jira plugin, which seems to be quite easy to do, but I haven't got time for it yet...

Don't hesitate to let me know what you think about it. :)

[AmandaA]

Hi Jonah,

For the issue summary/title and Issue key/ID, if you click on your mouse and hold it during srolling up or down, it will not direct you to the edit mode. you can try to put your mouse console at the end of the title on issue details page, click on it but hold your finger on and scroll left and up until include all the title and issue key. Then you can make a copy at on time.

Regards

[Jonah Petri]

That doesn't work, as it also selects the "Display" menu title.

[Fabrice Bauzac]

It does work for me!

[Henning Tietgens]

If you click between the project name and the issue key (there is no link active on this position) and hold the left mouse button, you can easily drag behind the summary underneath the key to mark key and summary in one step and past this into your comment. You only have to remove the line break after pasting.

Henning

[Jonah Petri]

That is what I've resorted to, but it grabs the "Display" menu title as well when I select it (at least in firefox).

[Henning Tietgens]

In Firefox I have an additional line feed in the copied text but nothing else. Maybe this is different on your version of JIRA. Sorry.

[Luke]

Works in Chrome on issue details screen:

1.  select two lines: ID + title
2.  click RMB(right mouse button) and choose: Search Google for "..."
3. new tab will be opened with google search and our two inconvenient lines will be already joined and prepared to be copied further

It might not be the most elegant way, but at least you don't have to install any additional tools to use it:)

[Infont X LLC]

i added the following code snippet to "announcement banner" /secure/admin/EditAnnouncementBanner.jspa which allows HTML and it added Text to Ticket number in Single Issue view, Search and Agile Board

tested in Chrome only but pretty sure FF will work or easy to adjust

<script>
setInterval(function() {
	var custAttr = 'data-issue-text-updated'
	var issueKeyElement = document.getElementById("key-val");
	if (issueKeyElement && document.getElementById("summary-val")) {
		if (issueKeyElement[custAttr] == "true") {
			return;
		}
		issueKeyElement.innerHTML += " - " + document.getElementById("summary-val").innerText
		issueKeyElement[custAttr] = 'true';
	}
	//* Agile Board
	var issueKeyElement = document.querySelector("a[title='View this issue in JIRA']");
	if (issueKeyElement && document.querySelector("dd[data-field-id='summary']")) {
		if (issueKeyElement[custAttr] == "true") {
			return;
		}
		issueKeyElement.innerHTML += " - " + document.querySelector("dd[data-field-id='summary']").innerText
		issueKeyElement[custAttr] = 'true';
	}
}, 1000)
</script>

[Ivan Onushkin]

you can get this string from browser tab title

Chrome

https://code.google.com/p/copy-url-and-title/wiki/Howto

Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-title/

[Fabrice Bauzac]

The first link seems to not work anymore.

However there seem to be several solutions for Chrome:

• Tab Copy
• and maybe also Tiny Copy Link

[Jonah Petri]

The answer is "you can't".

[Jonah Petri]

4 years later, and thousands of bug titles manually selected and then manually formatted, you STILL can't do this.

Atlassian just redid the entire UI.  But they didn't change this.  I guess internally they like manually selecting and copy/pasting/formatting text?  I'm super frustrated.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's because they don't expect it to be used like that.  If you're pasting it into places, you should be looking at better integration between tools, not copying and pasting.

[David C]

I wish I could downvote as very unhelpful @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- for "you should be looking at better integration between tools". So if my company hasn't adopted a full Atlassian stack, I'm doing it wrong?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, there are other tools which integrate fine, far better than copy and paste.

[Chaithra N]

hi,

Use filter result on to your dashboard with all the required columns.

Refer - https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Adding+the+Filter+Results+Gadget for more details.

[Jonah Petri]

Thanks, but I want to get to the bug ID and title from the issue detail screen, not from my dashboard, so this doesn't really help me, AFAICT.