Remove comment field on transition

[Joan Andreu Juan Torrens]

I'd like the comments field not to appear in some transition screens. Is that possible? I've read similar issues that include the use of plugins, but they are quite old.

[Joe Pitt · Accepted solution]

Out of the box every transition screen will have a comment field. You'd have to modify the source code for that. There may be a plugin that does it. However, beware if the plugin isn't supported it may not be available at the next version of JIRA. 

[Joan Andreu Juan Torrens]

Thanks Joe, so basically there are no means to do this without coding or plugins. Am I right?

[Joe Pitt]

correct. 

[P_D_ Foerster]

What a shame. So either you have to code the stuff yourself or you have to depend on commercial plugins. I think there are enough companies which have this use-case so that there should be an improvement in Jira's core functionality. In the simplest form it could be a transition property same as the workflow status property jira.permission.comment.denied=true.

[Jason Child]

Why not just edit the Announcement Banner (System > User Interface > Accouncement Banner) and inject some CSS styles to simply hide the comment input... simple, but effective:

For one specific form:

<style type="text/css">
  div#edit-issue-dialog div.form-body div.content div.field-group.comment-input {
    display: none;
  }
</style>

or... for all forms:

<style type="text/css">
  div.jira-dialog div.form-body div.content div.field-group.comment-input {
    display: none;
  }
</style>

 Cheers.

[Fakhfouri Vahid]

Hi

Jason, does this work with the Cloud version? 

[Doods Perea]

I am also using Jira Cloud. I would like to hide the Comments field only in a specific Transition Screen, not all screens.