Is it possible to pre-populate the "Description" field with a text that can be edited?

[Thomas Niederholz]

We would like to prepopulate the field "Description" with the following text.

Als ..., möchte ich ..., weil/damit/um ...

[Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Thomas Niederholz 

This is not possible on Jira Cloud - if you are using Cloud then you could either:

• Create a new multi-line text custom field and give this field a default value (you could do this in the same place where you edit the field context), then use this instead of the description field
• Create an automation rule to populate the description field with your text on creation
  • This would however only add the text once the issue has been created, and may overwrite anything that's added to the Description field on creation

If you are using the Server/Data Center version of Jira though, you can achieve this by following the steps in this article.

Hope this helps!

[Thomas Niederholz]

Thanks Callum.

Could you please give me some advise where I can edit the field context? 

[Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_]

If you're on Cloud, you go to Admin cog > Issues > Custom Fields, then click on the 3 dots on the right of the field > Contexts and default fields then click on Edit Default Value.

Just to reiterate, this is not possible with certain System fields like the Description field, but the above steps would be possible if you were using a multi-line custom field.

Also if you want to apply this default value only to a particular project/issue type, you would need to create a new context in this same place and scope it to said issue type(s)/project(s), but if you want the value to be applied to the field regardless of where it is, then you will not need to do this

[Thomas Niederholz]

We found it but we are just able to set a "context" not a text inside the textfield.

As disscussed with my admin, its not possible for us. Maybee we dont have the neccessary version at our company. thanks for your support.

[Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_]

Interesting, so do you not see this option?