Is there a setting to auto-expand all the collapsed comments by default in Jira?

[Rick Garcia]

When viewing a Jira issue, is there a global setting that will auto-expand the collapsed comments?

[jholmstadt-personal]

I got annoyed with not being able to set this preference on my own account, as others within my organization like collapsed comments, so I wrote a Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script to auto-expand these for me: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/29233-atlassian-jira-auto-expand-older-comments

[Richard_Blundell]

Thanks, John - this still works perfectly, two years later (v7.13).

[jgstew]

I am also wishing that there was an option to auto-expand the collapsed comments in a JIRA issue. In previous versions this seemed to be the default, but not any longer. I find this frustraiting.

[dleng]

If you're looking to set it to auto-expand for all users and all issues, you can follow this KB article here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Disable+comment+auto+collapse+in+JIRA

[bgoodr]

Navigating to https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Disable+comment+auto+collapse+in+JIRA shows:

OR

• Navigate to Administration >> System >> General Configuration >> Advanced Settings and modify the jira.comment.collapsing.minimum.hidden to 0

I am not seeing where to change that setting.  What I am seeing at the bottom of that page where "ADVANCED" is shown on the left side is:

The version at the bottom that admin page is:

Atlassian JIRA Project Management Software (v7.1.7#71011-sha1:2526d7c)

[Chris Lohman]

This is hard to find, but I found it.  

As an Administrator, click Jira Icon in upper left of your browser window.

Then Settings -> System -> General Configuration

Now here's the tricky part: look to the upper right for "Advanced Settings" button

Then you scroll to the bottom to find the jira.comment.collapsing.minimum.hidden and set it to 0.

[bgoodr]

Chris: That works wonders! Thank you!!

Verified as working on my version of Jira:

Atlassian JIRA Project Management Software (v7.1.7#71011-sha1:2526d7c)

[Chris Lohman]

Awesome - glad it helped you.

[Sina Siar]

Any update to this?

[Chaithra N]

hi,

Dont think there is any such option available