How to resize Description field in Issure Collector

[Ellen Chen]

 I create an issue collector, but 'Description' field is taken a lot of space in issue collector dialog, is there any way to define the size of 'Description' field in Issue Collector, so I can make all fields displayed in issue collector dialog?

[Dwight Holman]

Just discovered this old question after my suggestion to Atlassian about UI sizes was closed.

There have been a few different requests about customizing the size of JIRA fields and dialogs but Atlassian has closed them. Apparently they are the correct size :-| 

In most cases people want them to be larger rather than smaller.

But I *think* you could use the approach described here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-change-the-assign-comment-dialog-box-width-in-jira-824153674.html

You would need to figure out the appropriate CSS classes/IDs to specifically resize the description in the collector.

We use this approach to increase the size of the edit/add comment pop-up dialog, and the edit description dialogs. The default sizes are just too small for our users.

[Keri]

Hi Ellen, 

Unfortunately there is no way to do this in JIRA as the moment.  There is a feature request open at suggesting that we implement a way to resize fields in the issue collector.  You can see the suggestion here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-44350.  There is a number of ways which Atlassian uses to decide which new features are included in JIRA, full details can be found here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy.  In the meantime please feel free to add your own comments or examples to the ticket and vote on the issue. 

Thanks, 

Keri Hannon | Atlassian Support